On Reading Jonathan Franzen
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1 min readJun 5, 2009
On reading Jonathan Franzen’s new fiction: “I read that big Ben Marcus takedown of him in a back issue of Harper’s and I remember reading that takedown excitedly and being like, ‘Fuck yeah, Ben Marcus, you tell that douchebag!’ because I went to Florida State and that’s how we expressed ourselves, I think I might’ve smashed a can of Natty against my forehead afterwards just for good measure.”