Franzen on Franzen

[Richard Ryan]

A thoroughly tedious blend of self-absorption and self-pity...

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

> " I was ashamed of having married so early, ashamed of how strange and
> singular my marriage had been, ashamed of my guilt about it, ashamed
> of the years of moral contortions I'd undergone on my way to divorce,
> ashamed of my sexual inexperience, ashamed of what an outrageous and
> judgmental mother I had, ashamed of being a bleeding and undefended
> person instead of a tower of remoteness and command and intellect like
> DeLillo or Pynchon, ashamed to be writing a book that seemed to want
> to turn on the question of whether an outrageous midwestern mother
> will get one last Christmas at home with her family."
>
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/30/corrections-jonathan-franzen-guardian-bookclub
>
> AsB4,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Mu
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>
>


-- 
Richard Ryan
New York and the World
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
                                --Robert Frost
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