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Friday, November 26, 2004  

Reality Can be Ugly

For the past twelve months I have been making love to Jonathan Franzen. The fact that he lives in New York and has never met me is no impediment to my fertile imagination. Ever since I read his collection of essays, How to Be Alone (which I've blogged about before), I've been kinda obsessed with the guy. How can I resist a man who calls serious fiction his religion? My fantasies, no doubt, have been fuelled by his hunky author photo, which adorns all his books; I mean, the man practically smolders.

All this by way of saying that I've been plunged into the most profound and devastating of depressions ever since stumbling across this little piece on the net about Franzen's author photo. Another author fantasy bites the dust. Even the imaginary lovers can turn ugly apparently.

posted by Cherine | 2:03 PM
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