“I told him that I had loved Freedom, which is true and would have been a great ending point for our exchange. So it’s difficult to articulate what possessed me, at a later, boozier point in the dinner, to ask Franzen whether he had any weed.”
—Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, has an awesome essay in The Guardian about what her life is like after having a bestselling book, including all the indecent e-mails she receives and the time she asked Jonathan Franzen for weed.
