Desperate Characters fell out of print until its 1980 reissue by Godine, which included an afterword by Irving Howe.[3] After another period out of print, it was reissued in 1999 by W.W. Norton, with a preface by Jonathan Franzen. The 1999 reissue was inspired by the publication in Harper’s of "Why Bother?", in which Franzen lauds the novel.[6][7] It has been translated into Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, French, Portuguese, Greek, and Slovak.
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