![]() ![]() Many years ago, Franzen spoke about jamming the USB port on his computer in order to get stuff done, and more recently scolded Salman Rushdie for wasting time on Twitter. But it is also an odd fit a novel about technology by someone who avowedly doesn’t like using it. Internet culture is, in some ways, perfect fodder for Franzen, who is never stronger than when calling out the gap between how we see ourselves and how others see us – a gap wherein so much of online life now resides. Purity is the story of Pip, a girl in her early 20s, and a Julian Assange-type character called Andreas Wolf, who runs a rival organisation to Wikileaks called the Sunlight Project. ![]() I was embarrassed to still care about family' 'I was cripplingly ashamed of The Corrections. The society accused him of “intellectual dishonesty”, and its members attacked him online, an unpleasant, but also, perhaps, a bleakly satisfying experience: the incident foreshadowed the themes of Franzen’s new novel. ![]() No sooner has one controversy died down than another pops up in its place, most recently in the wake of a long piece he wrote in the New Yorker in April, suggesting that, contrary to research published by the bird charity the National Audubon Society, climate change was not the greatest threat to avian welfare – it was more immediate dangers such as hunting and collision with glass. ![]() Video: Watch Jonathan Franzen answer Guardian Weekend magazine’s quickfire Q&A Guardianįranzen says he is “hurt” and “ashamed” to be the target of such ire, but he is also unrepentant. ![]()
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