![]() ![]() As a serious artist, he knows that the deck is stacked against him after all, a great novel is a kind of antiproduct, one that is "inexpensive, infinitely reusable, and, worst of all, unimprovable." The problem, he says, is that instead of being allowed to enjoy our solitary uniqueness we are all being turned into one gigantic corporate-created entity, a point Franzen makes tellingly when he says that while a black lesbian New Yorker and a Southern Baptist Georgian might appear totally different, the truth is that both "watch LettermanĮvery night, both are struggling to find health insurance. Bestselling and National Book Award– winning novelist Franzen ( The Corrections) urges readers to say no to drugs, but not the pharmaceutical kind his opiates are those "technology offers in the form of TV, pop culture, and endless gadgetry," soporifics that "are addictive and in the long run only make society's problems worse." Franzen's just as hard on intellectual conformity-on academe's canonization of third-rate but politically correct novels, for example. ![]()
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