JONATHAN FRANZEN

In 2021, few in the publishing industry worried that no one cared about books anymore.

At last he’s put aside the pyrotechnics and gone all in on his great theme: the American family.

Anthony Doerr, Richard Powers and Lauren Groff are among this years nominees on the National Book Awards’ fiction longlist, which also includes Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ debut novel “The Love Songs of W.

The fall book season will be packed with new works by such high-profile authors as Jonathan Franzen, Sally Rooney and Colson Whitehead.

The new Aretha Franklin bio-pic was a labor of love for its filmmaker. Plus, a frank conversation about a parent’s choices in a segregated public-school system.

The author has sold millions of books and won the National Book Award. Time magazine put him on the cover with the headline "Great American Novelist." Franzen is the best-selling author of "The Corrections" and "Freedom." Franzen joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss and his new book, "Purity," which the Los Angeles Times calls "fierce writing."