
5. Jonathan Franzen: Anyone who really, sincerely loves Franzen’s writing has also probably really, sincerely told someone that “learn to code” was the solution to all their problems. The Corrections also contributed to the obsession with the literal and figurative “big book,” in w…
…t when I ask him whether a woman scientist should be the one writing a book about women scientists. He seems so desperate to say something that he hasn’t taken the time to question whether or not it should be him saying it.