I grew up in New Orleans in the 1960s, and I left in 1990. As I write this, it occurs to me that I have spent almost as much time away from the city as I did in it. I miss it, sometimes painfully, and I’ve been thinking recently that I don’t know enough about it, that I don’t understand my city as I should. It was my home, but such was my childhood that […]
We go long stretches without hearing anything from him at all. Then something happens that kicks up his name again, and we all chatter about him. But as it turns out, he really doesn’t care. We’re talking about Jonathan Franzen, of course. The most recent dust up came by way of LitHub, bringing us Franzen’s “10 Rules for Novelists” originally published in 2010 by The Guardian along with other, similar lists by the likes of […]
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