Jonathan Franzen on Author Videos & the Novel
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Uploaded by MacmillanUSA on Aug 14, 2010
Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom and The Corrections, discusses how odd it is to talk about novels through the medium of a brief author video.
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Everyone who is concerned about overpopulation, feel free to be the first to go...
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@dyad2r1 who says you need religion or a family to have a good life?
also, he doesn't seem to be addicted to drugs. If he did, we'd probably hear about it.
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@Savorist kris novoselic was and is a great basist. so the meyer comparison is completely off-base, my friend. :D
4 months ago 2
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David Foster Wallace is Kurt Cobain. Jonathan Franzen is Dave Grohl. Stephanie Meyer is Krist Novoselic.
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@jtomkiw I don't think he was trying to be particularly sophisticated or "meta." He was just being honest about his discomfort with the whole author video thing, while still acknowledging the fact that he ultimately wanted to do it. Seems perfectly legitimate to me.
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I was so excited to read this book . . . until I saw this video
8 months ago 2
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@jtomkiw Yes.
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stfu franzen
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I love him so much. It's just ridiculous.
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How positively meta of you, Jonathan! Complaining about an author video while DOING the author video. Gad...what a self-important piece of work. Not the novel. Franzen.
jtomkiw 1 year ago 8
I want to appreciate the heck out of a guy who "objects" to "author videos" per se ... and yet musters up the courage to do one ... BRAVO !!!
socoolbooks 1 year ago 6