Franzen on Franzen

[Michael Bailey]

 Richard Ryan wrote:
> A thoroughly tedious blend of self-absorption and self-pity...

that notion did cross my mind as well...

a-and yet, I kinda like his face

his writing ain't too bad if you ask me

and in his defense, or, really, to my discredit, I remember bending my
own Grandma's ear in the nursing home about my love life...hypocrite
auteur, mon semblable, mon frere!