“This week marks the first time that a full-time, professional writer—a ‘living American writer,’ as the New York Times puts it, (published politicians, movie stars, and athletes have day jobs, after all)—has made the cover, since Stephen King appeared, along with an aquamarine iMac, in 2000.”
Jonathan Franzen makes the cover of Time Magazine as “Great American Novelist.”
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