Correcting a Freedom

http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/77903/impact-man http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/10/smaller-than-life/8212/ As the New Republic and Atlantic Monthly articles above demonstrate, Jonathan Franzen is in way over his head. Because the quality of his work does not measure up to the scope of his ambitions, it is easy to judge him a failure. And that is what I shall do…

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Sam Anderson is my dude…for hating Thomas Pynchon.

Read this: http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/58182/   I found out about this review from http://themillions.com  . After having read it I feel gloriously self-righteous in my cause for quality contemporary literature.

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“I decided I knew nothing.”

When I was in high school I got in trouble during Physical Science class. I was a freshman and didn’t really care for school at all. My teacher, Mrs. Stonbraker, ordered me to write 500 words on why I shouldn’t misbehave. Naturally I wrote something to the effect of: If I misbehave I will not only [...]

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