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Articles by Daniel Silliman

December 14, 2009

Jonathan Franzen, Honesty and the Lines of Literature 7

In Tübingen, Jonathan Franzen talked candidly and casually about his struggles as a writer. En route, though, he made a stealthy attempt to re-frame literature so that he and his project occupied its absolute center.

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