Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Jonathan Franzen Is Wrong: Genre Fiction Is All About Moral Complexity

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Well, there’s a new Jonathan Franzen interview out with literary magazine Booth, and for someone who eschews the Internet, the man sure knows how to conquer it. The Twitter detractor is now, himself, a trending topic on Twitter. Well done, sir. Well done.

Where to begin feeding the Franzen-frenzy? Yes, there was the typical social media disdain. There were the potshots at Jennifer Weiner. (She’s already responded, but maybe interviewers should just stop asking him about her. It’s kind of a manufactured feud at this point.) More charmingly, there was an aside about Nurse Jackie, and some very honest sentiments about his writing process. Most notably, though, he makes a somewhat surprising attempt to be generous to genre readers:  More

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