Excellent piece. Here in Seattle we just had a very good spoof of the Franzen cover at The Stranger, courtesy of Tao Lin. Within is a review of Freedom, also worth a look:
If I were Jonathan Franzen I would find this annoying, since I (Jonathan Franzen) have already stated publicly that I (Jonathan Franzen) agree that male fiction writers are taken more seriously than female and that I did not consider the Picoult and Weiner’s criticisms to be ad hominem.
September 29th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Ewing, out to Jackson — “Yes!”
September 29th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
I love this wildly.
September 29th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Excellent piece. Here in Seattle we just had a very good spoof of the Franzen cover at The Stranger, courtesy of Tao Lin. Within is a review of Freedom, also worth a look:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/great-american-novelist/Content?oid=4940853
September 30th, 2010 at 9:44 am
Hilarious.
October 1st, 2010 at 3:47 pm
This is amazing!
December 12th, 2012 at 11:57 pm
If I were Jonathan Franzen I would find this annoying, since I (Jonathan Franzen) have already stated publicly that I (Jonathan Franzen) agree that male fiction writers are taken more seriously than female and that I did not consider the Picoult and Weiner’s criticisms to be ad hominem.