jamiatt:

I wrote down a bunch of things Jonathan Franzen said at his reading at Tulane last night. Here is part of his response to a question about social networking:

“It’s a free country. People can do whatever they want within the law, and even some things not within the law…I personally was on Facebook for two weeks as part of a piece of journalism I was writing — it seemed sort of dumb to me. Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose…it’s hard to cite facts or create an argument in 140 characters…it’s like if Kafka had decided to make a video semaphoring The Metamorphosis. Or it’s like writing a novel without the letter ‘P’…It’s the ultimate irresponsible medium.”

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    In which Jonathan Franzen advises all of you to get the fuck off his lawn.

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    My thoughts below...To play Franzen’s advocate (I am...avid...

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    I think I’m at a point where I can say I do not like Jonathan Franzen and I’m sick of hearing from and about him. Before...

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    inadvertent Georges Perec dis...this quote. Actually, was

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    Talking about myself is my favorite pastime.

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