/lit/ - Literature

>>18576571
uhhh Franzen?

>But since the rip-roaring success of The Corrections 14 years ago, isn't he a 1 per center himself? “I am literally, in terms of my income, a 1 per center, yes,” he says, his eyes not on me but on the empty table next to us. “I spend my time connected to the poverty that's fundamental to mankind, because I'm a fiction writer.”

>He doesn't write about poverty, I protest. He writes about the angst of people like him and the people he knows. Franzen gives the neighbouring table top a weary look. “That's a quotation from Flannery O'Connor, by the way.”

>While I smart, he goes on: “I'm a poor person who has money.”

https://medium.ft.com/lunch-with-the-ft-jonathan-franzen-28bf49930652

Serious question, is Jonathan Franzen an actual person or just someone's conceptualist stunt of cosplaying as a trope of a writer from midcult films?