Purity

[Dave Monroe]

http://www.npr.org/2015/09/01/436442184/jonathan-franzen-on-writing-its-an-escape-from-everything

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122443/sex-lies-and-internet
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> https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/biology-destiny-purity/
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> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Dave Monroe
> <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Franzen has said Purity is his riskiest novel yet, but I see it as
>> his safest because of its entertainment enticements, including a stray
>> nuclear warhead that might incinerate Amarillo if the bomb weren’t a
>> red herring in the plot and a jejune parody of the rocket as sex
>> object in Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow."
>>
>> http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/25/jonathan-franzen-s-icky-secrets.html
>>
>> Thanks, Doug Millison!
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