It seems likely that Franzen will have a star on the Delmar Loop Walk of Fame one day, so why not include him here? This 2002 collection of essays contains pieces which were mostly published in 1990s. And though some of the details are dated (like mourning the transitions from cassettes to CDs), the themes of private vs public life and the place of fiction in popular culture are not. I especially appreciated his long piece on his father, 'My Father's Brain.' Includes reportage on the SuperMax prison in Florence, Colorado which was chilling.
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