Books: In Which Jonathan Franzen Gives Birth to a Giant Turkey
Purity, by Jonathan Franzen ‘All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ Given how routinely Jonathan Franzen is now compared to Tolstoy it’s easy to imagine the iconic opening line of Anna Karenina speaking to a younger Franzen as a kind of career modus operandi. True, his first … Read more