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Jonathan Franzen (Rat)
Jonathan Franzen (Rat) is recorded in 1 distinct story.
Drew remembers Franzen giving a university lecture and quotes his remark on writing; 11/22/63 merely guesses an attribution.
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She certainly couldn’t be worried that he was going mental over a book he hadn’t even started to write. Thinking that brought back a memory of a lecture the English Department had sponsored five or six years before, Jonathan Franzen speaking to a full house on the art and craft of the novel.
Drew remembers Franzen giving a university lecture and quotes his remark on writing; 11/22/63 merely guesses an attribution.