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It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
Jonathan Franzen
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Jonathan Franzen
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: August 17
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Jonathan Earl Franzen
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When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.
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I'm not too concerned what happens to my books after I'm dead. But I am very concerned by what's going on with the culture of reading and writing nowadays.
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Then she waited, with parted lips and a saucy challenge in her eyes, to see how her presence -- the drama of being her -- was registering. In the way of such chicks, she seemed convinced of the originality of her provocation.
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