Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Tuesday, April 01, 2003 I guess today is bash the authors I like day: NYPress: 50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers49 Jonathan Franzen , Author If only al Qaeda could be conned into a prisoner exchange: We get the retarded adopted son of bin Laden’s plumber’s apprentice, they get Jonathan Franzen. Alas, they’re smarter than that. The author of The Corrections made his career by loudly offering himself as a leading candidate to write the next Catch-22, despite the fact that he has absolutely no sense of humor. Has made himself the leader of a self-congratulatory public campaign to bring back "serious" writing, which apparently means 576 pages of namedropping, contrived situations and agonizingly overwrought metaphors. (The Corrections has a full page on the theme of "the alarm bell of anxiety.") The reason people don’t read books anymore isn’t because they’re too lazy to turn off the Knicks game; it’s because the New York publishing world makes darlings out of writers who seem proud of how much they suck. posted by Jeff Lester | 9:54 AM | |
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