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09:42 UK time, Wednesday, 6 October 2010

"Franzenfreude" - term for authors' envy at the many brilliant reviews bestowed upon author Jonathan Franzen

The wall-to-wall praise of the writer's fourth novel, Freedom, has led US chick-lit author Jennifer Weiner to coin a phrase for "taking pain in the multiple and copious reviews being showered on Jonathan Franzen".

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