Today I’m writing to you about Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads, a novel that I read two months ago and that was published in 2021. This is not in any sense a timely essay, but that’s the thing about books: you read them when you read them. I think of a quote by the great Black Francis/Frank Black, in an interview in which he talked about listening to old …
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