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Sarfraz Manzoor: The United States fetishizes freedom and forgets that, actually, there are greater freedoms to be had by having bonds.
Franzen is the 51-year-old writer/activist who gained some celebrity a decade ago when one of his books was chosen to be an Oprah Winfrey “book club” selection, and Franzen responded by publicly disparaging her taste in literature,casque dr dre, and freting that his status in what he called “the high-art literary tradition” might alienate Oprah fans.
The Scrapbook is not ordinarily in the business of transcription, but a recent interview with novelist Jonathan Franzen—seen on the website of the Guardian newspaper in London—prompts us to reproduce one passage in full.
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