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The Corrections won the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. It was also a finalist for the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award, the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Oprah Winfrey rescinded Franzen's invitation after he publicly expressed unease about The Corrections being selected for her book club, including worrying on National Public Radio's Fresh Air that the Oprah logo on the cover was discouraging male readers. Winfrey announced he was "seemingly uncomfortable and conflicted" and that she had decided to move on.
The Corrections sold 1.6 million copies and Freedom sold 1.15 million copies. Purity was a relative commercial disappointment, selling 255,476 copies.
Franzen appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 2010 to coincide with the release of his novel Freedom, under the headline "Great American Novelist." He was the first American author to appear on the cover since Stephen King in 2000.
A Key to All Mythologies is the title of a projected trilogy by Franzen, announced by his publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux on the 13th of November, 2020. The first volume, Crossroads, was published on the 5th of October, 2021, and follows a pastor, his wife, and four children across two sections titled "Advent" and "Easter."
On the 17th of September, 2010, Oprah Winfrey announced Freedom as the first book club selection of the final season of The Oprah Winfrey Show, resolving the earlier feud over The Corrections. Franzen appeared on the show on the 6th of December, 2010, where they discussed both Freedom and the original controversy.