The truth, perhaps, is that he was never that cool in the first place, or, at least, that his time in the unshadowed sun was brief. When did the balance tip against him? When did Jonathan Franzen lose his cool? If Oyler is right that it's young people who disdain Franzen and all his works, then the trend is set, and his days are numbered. The world where, if Zadie Smith really did find The Corrections "impossible to dislike", she wasn't trying hard enough? Among young writers online, this is more controversial than any sex thing you can come up with". Or do you live in the world where Jonathan Franzen is not just a bad writer (" the plot here seems contrived and the characters fail to engage" – Kirkus) but a benchmark for everything that is wrong with modern literature? That is, the world critic Lauren Oyler evoked when, in a review of Torrey Peters' novel Detransition, Baby for the London Review of Books in May, she said: "The naughtiest thought I had while reading it is that the book recalls the work of Jonathan Franzen. Which world do you live in? The one where Franzen is a striding colossus of contemporary fiction, "a literary genius for our time" (The Guardian), "the novelist for our times" (Time), author of books such as Freedom, "a Great American Novel for our time" (Daily Telegraph) and The Corrections, "a moving epic for our time" (New York Magazine)? (Everyone agrees, it seems, that he is for our time.)
As his new novel Crossroads is published, the battle is on once more. This can be the only explanation for why he polarises otherwise like-minded people – that gentle subset of humanity we call readers – in a way that even Donald Trump or Meghan Markle can't. This story has been updated with further information.Sometimes it seems like there are two people called Jonathan Franzen: the successful, acclaimed novelist, and his evil twin. Might be worth a go-the more we show GR we're aware of it, the faster it'll be fixed.- Helen Corcoran June 10, 2021 Within a few hours, my ratings were back to normal. While the issue continues to persists, some authors have reported success in having their ratings and reviews reinstated on Goodreads after contacting the company.Īuthors, I contacted GR through their form with my book link and politely asked what was going on. This is a priority for the team and we are focused on resolving this as quickly as possible." In an email to PW, a representative of Goodreads said that the site is "currently experiencing technical issues in how the stats about overall ratings and reviews show on a book page," stressing that "no reviews or ratings have been deleted." The representative added: "Our team is actively working on a fix for this and stats should repopulate shortly. The bug will likely prove especially harmful, at least in the short term, to authors with books that have just recently been released and have fewer ratings.
Losing reviews skews a book’s rating, and, as a result, places an entirely different emphasis on the book’s implied quality. Authors took to Twitter with their worries, because for authors, the loss of reviews and ratings is no minor issue, as the platform is a powerful tool for book discoverability and promotion. The number of ratings per book lost seem, without any further information, to be random. It’s unknown how many books are affected by the bug. “While there’s no confirmed fix date yet to share,” the email read, “this bug is prioritized in our development team’s backlog-we hope to fix this soon.” Authors who filed a complaint with Goodreads, which was acquired by Amazon in 2013, have received a statement from the “Goodreads Experts Team,” which said that it is aware of the issue and working on a fix.
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