NP: misc. question/answer re FREEDOM for anyone who may have read it.

[rich]

remember william holden in Network
faye dunaway is ranking on his inadequacies in bed
holden is like i left all that dick measuring so to speak in the schoolyard

franzen is being a bit like that faye dunaway
in the end so childish
not sure what he's on about

but I will say that any white male author feels the need to have his
white male character feel bad about being a white male
god that shit's old
talking to you Moody, too

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mark Kohut to Mark  show details 9:52 AM (0 minutes ago)
> PW: Will the re-published, post-pulped UK version of 'Freedom' remove Franzen's
> one-line dig at Ian McEwan?http://bit.ly/bi1KbI
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> Stupid. That is the so-cool Richard, right?. The guy who in college is reading a
> paperback with a big V. on it?
> Combined with the famous-enough to voracious readers but more quietly expressed
> (and much less known) "turn' of Franzen away from writers like Gaddis--a famous
> dissing in Harper's/Atlantic--and Pynchon in favor of satiric "social realism".
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> And this is not, am I wrong?, a dig at McEwan but a dig at Richard, of course,
> as McEwan moved in the same direction in his fiction as did Franzen. A dig at
> cool novel readers who cannot read about 'real people in real life'?
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