The Center for Fiction Presents Jonathan Franzen on the 25th Anniversary of The Corrections

Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT September 22, 2026

The Center for Fiction
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Join us to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction and a 2002 Pulitzer Prize Finalist.

The novel follows Enid Lambert, a wife and mother attempting to bring her family together for Christmas despite her husband’s recent Parkinson’s diagnosis and the growing distance between her and her children. Stretching from the American heartland to Wall Street to Eastern Europe, The Corrections combines the sweeping narratives and emotional intricacies that have made Franzen a defining voice in contemporary American fiction.

At the event, Franzen will reflect on the trajectory of this now renowned novel, as well as the evolution of his writing and career since its publication. All tickets include a signed copy of the 25th Anniversary Edition of The Corrections. In-person tickets guarantee a seat, and Franzen will sign books after the event.

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    The Corrections

    By Jonathan Franzen

    Published by Picador

    PURCHASE

    “A spellbinding novel” (People) from the New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Franzen, the author of Crossroads, The Corrections is a comic, tragic family story and epic of worlds colliding. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson’s disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home.

    An epic comedy stretching from the American heartland to Wall Street and Eastern Europe, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Timely in its themes, it is timeless in its portrait of a family in crisis.

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