archives for April 2006

on jonathan franzen

Friday 21 April 2006 | I like a cookie

You know, our man Franzen is a cipher. First he’s contemptuous of everything in the world including but not limited to commercial publishing and himself; then he’s yukking it up with and mugging for some staff photographer, and selling The Corrections for a squillion benjamins. It’s a misanthropy of convenience. I have no patience for […]

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