November 7, 2005 9:18 PM

On reading

Jonathan Franzen believes the novel should work to meet the reader. Ben Marcus disagrees with him. Darby Larson writes, "Don't Read This or You Might Get Poked in the Eye With a Dagger."

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  1. The physicality of typing | Patrick Cooper: Greetings from Evanston, Ill. says:

    [...] have serious limits. We are left in the kind of author truth vs. audience truth fight that always rages around the novel, except with the choices of digi-heavyweights and the technicalities of embedding over us all. The [...]

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