Jeeesh! Long time since I posted anything on this poor lonely blog. Why so long? Turns out, I’ve been reading...a lot.
Which brings up an intriguing comment by Jonathan Franzen in the Sunday New York Times Book Review (6/6/10).
Haven’t we all secretly sort of come to an agreement...that novels belong to the age of newspapers and are going the way of newspapers, only faster?
As an old English professor friend of mine likes to say, novels are a curious moral case, in that we feel guilty about not reading more of them but also guilty about doing something as frivolous as reading them…
Okay, so it’s tongue-and-cheek. Or not. Still, I’m wondering...
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