Live from the 57th Street McDonald’s
posted by Emily Gordon
Jonathan Franzen: “Sometimes we worry that the novel will become like poetry in a few years.”
Cressida Leyshon on Zadie Smith: “When you read her, you feel as though you’re in a warm bath drinking a shot of tequila.”
Franzen: “Hello to all the therapists in the audience!”
Zadie Smith after Franzen draped his jacket over her shoulders, like the secretly hot captain of the chess club with the secretly brainy cheerleader: “Oh, that’s very gentlemanly!”
23 September 2005 | uncategorized |
Our Endless and Proper Work is my new book with Belt Publishing about starting (and sticking to) a productive writing practice. 
