jonathan franzen

If a reviewer were ever to write this about my work, i think, i'd die a happy woman.
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The quality that drives people crazy about [her] is the same quality that makes [her writing] remarkable, which is [her] ruthless, tenacious honesty, [her] refusal to write the world as we wish it would be, and to engage instead as truthfully as [she] can with this transcendently weird business of our existence together on earth. In the end that’s far more valuable, both in literary terms and in human ones, than any declaration of solidarity could be.
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(from this article on Jonathan Franzen)
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