At Salon, David Daley argues that “Jonathan Franzen and the Web will never get along.” Daly points us to an anecdote in Franzen’s “On Autobiographical Fiction” in contending that both the author and his critics are misinterpreting and talking past each other.
“Maybe Franzen is actually the successful writer who knows exactly what he wants to do with his platform: He wants to make a case for the way people should read, for the very meaning of honesty and expression and truth. He wants to find a way beyond shame, beyond worrying about what others think — for the sake of getting closer to the truth in his work.”
