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Jonathan Franzen’s Icky Secrets

Purity

The novelist’s new mega-tome is a strangely needy book, chock full of autobiography, from a domineering mother to a friendship-rivalry mirroring his own relationship with David Foster Wallace.

Tom LeClair
Tom LeClair
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Tom LeClair

Tom LeClair

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