Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
Jonathan FranzenIt seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
Jonathan FranzenTHE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor.
Jonathan Franzen