I'm going to adopt a self-important middle-aged white guy so I can understand Franzen.
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) August 21, 2015
I considered adopting #JonathanFranzen to better understand out-of-touch, White men but watched C-SPAN instead http://t.co/YTRpQ4siYR
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) August 21, 2015
an editor talked Franzen out of adopting an Iraqi orphan.
remember that the next time you wonder why editors are still needed.
— Mensah Demary (@mensah4000) August 21, 2015
Sometimes Franzen sits down with his Iraqi war orphan and cries softly on his shoulder. "I can't not be a white man," he says. "I've tried."
— Shannon Hale (@haleshannon) August 21, 2015
I'm looking forward to the sitcom where Franzen adopts a robot but he's the one who learns what it means to be human.
— Anne Ursu (@anneursu) August 21, 2015
"I don't know why any writer would use social media," Franzen said, settling down for a lengthy chat about his new book with the Guardian.
— Jennifer Weiner (@jenniferweiner) August 21, 2015
"Have you considered fostering?"
"I have, and I am." Franzen said, lovingly stroking his journal. "His name is the Great American Novel."
— Eric Smith (@ericsmithrocks) August 21, 2015
Oh, Franzen. But then, what do you expect from the great practitioner of using humans as objects for a formalist exploration of his own self
— Helen Rosner (@hels) August 21, 2015
And then Anne Thériault terrifyingly brings it all back home:
So I'm quoted (sort of?) in this Guardian piece about Franzen and already the franzboys are out in full forcd pic.twitter.com/KlBsqT4DNJ
— Anne Thériault (@anne_theriault) August 21, 2015
I get that this is all very academic and hilarious to Franzen but like LAST MONTH a man shot up a movie theatre because he hated feminists.
— Anne Thériault (@anne_theriault) August 21, 2015
I guarantee the same franzboys telling me to shut up forever are also rabid defenders of free speech. Just not when it comes from women.
— Anne Thériault (@anne_theriault) August 21, 2015