Yesterday, nine years after Jonathan Franzen insulted Oprah and got himself disinvited from her show, he finally appeared on her book club to discuss his latest novel, Freedom.

On the Paris Review’s Web site, Lorin Stein responds to a reader who asks: “Which books would you recommend to a smart, bored, somewhat alienated teenage girl trapped in the suburbs?”

The organization VIDA is dedicated to pointing out bias in the publishing world.

"Trussing up my novels as sweet, girly and soft is like stuffing a rottweiler in a dress," the novelist writes in the Guardian.