Same, because whoever Franzen is as a person (and I honestly don’t know much about him), I still enjoyed The Corrections. And I’m probably not going to read Jennifer Weiner’s book. I read Good in Bed and borderline disliked it. Which is not to say that there are not female authors who I love. Like, Margaret Atwood is…

I’m going to read Franzen’s book, Jezebel’s opinions be damned, tbh.

Ms. Davies, Jonathan Franzen is about as “great at writing partner sex scenes” as you are at being a literary critic. But you’re right: Freedom is a “576-page story of a wife who cheats on her husband with her husband’s best friend.” And of course War and Peace is about a bunch of Russian dudes who shoot guns and…