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Great American Novelist?
August 27, 2010 by Michelle Dean · 1 Comment
Time‘s recent declaration of the obscure and notoriously media-shy writer Jonathan Franzen as our “Great American Novelist” was met, at first anyway, with shocking equanimity, it seems to me. Sure, he has a new book, Freedom, coming out. Sure, Sam Tanenhaus declared said novel a “masterpiece of American fiction” in the New York Times, though [...]
