Jonathan Franzen Talks with David Remnick About “Crossroads”
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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Is There a Silent Majority of American Readers Who Want Nuance and Realism in Non Fiction?
When you teach or lecture or meet readers, do you see this is a an increasingly dominant strain? People want characters that either, i don't know, justify them, or carry certain political banners in a way that's distorting to reading. A couple of years ago, you were kind enough to publish a short piece called, what if we stopped pretending that i wrote about climate change and a and there was, you know, friends with long faces, a or who sounded like they had long faces in their emales to me said, oh, my god, that was very brave of you. You're the most hated person in environmental circles in the world, and how n you stand to
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