So good, Tom… So, so good.
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Clearly, I’m not sufficiently keeping up with literary gossip these days…
Sorry Karl. I was going to link to the appropriate post(s), but then decided everyone had surely seen them already.
You didn’t miss much. Franzen said some curmudgeonly things, and some people who don’t like Franzen but are not above using his reputation to enhance their own, said some snarky stuff in reply. Plus ça change.
I feel like the bald guy is supposed to be Seth Godin
Ha! To be fair though, there’s hardly a shortage of bald chaps with glasses in publishing.