TIME magazine, in its August 23rd, 2010 edition, placed Jonathan Franzen on its cover. This was the first time in years that a novelist had graced the cover of this newsweekly. I was especially affected by one quote from the interview with Franzen.
"The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world."
Nicely put, Jonathan.
Fiction, at its best, doesn't involve so much millions of copies of hard-back books having to be inventoried and promoted as it does a quiet one-on-one dialog between the thoughtful, observant writer and the intelligent, attentive reader.
J.P. Cunningham
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