12 years ago
Slate: "Jonathan Franzen’s First Novel Was Terrible, but it's being reissued anyway"
"Some books ought to be allowed to molder in peace. Jonathan Franzen’s first novel, The Twenty-Seventh City, published in 1988, is a paranoid conspiracy novel, the kind of thing that doesn’t age well—and hasn’t. It has earned some rest. But it’s been trotted out for its 25th anniversary..."
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