Jonathan Franzen. Photo by Jeff Lipsky.
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Megan O’Grady interviewed Jonathan Franzen last year about his latest novel, Freedom, for the September 2010 Vogue, and the piece was accompanied by the above portrait of the bestselling author shot by Jeff Lipsky.
Here’s an excerpt from O’Grady’s story:
In the period following The Corrections, the downside of unchecked liberty was very much on Franzen’s mind. After six years of false starts trying to break ground on a new novel, years in which he faced the death of his mother and adapted to a new life of literary celebrity, he saw his country subsumed by anger. “What’s this rage about?” he asks rhetorically. “You can do anything you want. We’re unprecedentedly rich and free; why is everyone so miserable? And of course, I was an example of it myself. I was suddenly rich and free. Why am I so miserable?”
To read the rest, go here.
And, while we’re talking Vogue, here’s a portrait of Franzen by Jeff that appeared in the January 2011 issue of L’Uomo Vogue…
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Jonathan Franzen. Photo by Jeff Lipsky for L'Uomo Vogue.
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2 Comments
You can’t be serious about posting these as the image/s of the day. They are just very unremarkable. Sorry.
Jeff is awesome. Met him at a camera store in Hollywood – very cool and down to earth.