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#JonathanFranzenHates, Nabokoving, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
March 7, 2012
On the Shelf
Nabokoving.
A cultural news roundup.
“Once again, it’s that time of year when otherwise mature adults paint their faces in the palettes of their favorite book jacket designers, and all across Facebook college kids post pictures of themselves
Nabokoving
. Yes, we’re talking about
book awards season
.”
Happy birthday, John Updike
!
Happy birthday, Douglas Adams
!
Geoff Dyer
on “bunking off.”
With friends like these,
Saul Bellow
didn’t need enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen and Jean Rhys get the “
blue plaque treatment
” in London.
Stephen King: “The idea that a writer can bring his core audience into the tent with a blurb …
you might as well try herding cats
.”
The fact that Truman Capote wrote
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
here
is a selling point. The fact that it has eighteen rooms doesn’t hurt, either.
Footnotes upon footnotes in
Footnote
.
“Eggers named his journal after
McSweeney
before he knew anything about the man, and didn’t discover his identity until after McSweeney died in January 2010 at age sixty-seven.”
The famously combative
Ben Jonson
.
Jonathan Franzen: “
Twitter is unspeakably irritating
. Twitter stands for everything I oppose … it’s hard to cite facts or create an argument in 140 characters … it’s like if Kafka had decided to make a video semaphoring
The Metamorphosis
. Or it’s like writing a novel without the letter ‘P’… It’s the ultimate irresponsible medium … People I care about are readers … particularly serious readers and writers, these are my people. And we do not like to yak about ourselves.”
#JonathanFranzenHates
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