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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Sep 2019

    1. Jonathan Franzen? There's a common reaction (especially on twitter) to Franzen which is basically "Franzen? Fuck that guy!" This is understandable but, I think, wrong. There's good reason for trying to engage with Franzen, even at his worst.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Sep 2019

        2. The opposition to taking large-scale collective action against climate is breaking down, but it's still there. And as it breaks down, a barrier will be not just reactionaries like Charles Koch but ostensibly well-meaning liberals Franzen who are allergic to collective action.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Sep 2019

        3. It's gift of a certain type of writer to make articulate the confused motivated reasoning of usually inarticulate people. John Updike was like that with the Vietnam War, which he supported. His arguments were an eloquent expression of muddled nationalism.

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Sep 2019

        4. In Franzen's case, he shows that there's a real hurdle that comes not just from Uncle Scrooge libertarians but a certain very attractive strain of American individualism, the Emersonian & Thoreauvian cherishing of small-scale democracy & conservation.

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      5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Sep 2019

        5. Via E.B. White, genteel, small-town tree-hugging liberalism has always been a part of the New Yorker's DNA. Robert Warshow, reviewing a White book in 1947, provided a devastating critique.pic.twitter.com/GJHkuz4Y9r

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      6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Sep 2019

        6. Franzen's brand of liberalism has diminishing appeal but it does persist among a certain strand of that upper-middle-class that has disproportionate cultural power, hence it needs to be argued with. As I try to do here: https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-change-jonathan-franzen/ …

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      1. Tim Spalding  🇺🇦‏ @librarythingtim 10 Sep 2019
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        Frazen is like David Books. They seem universally hated on Twitter—at least with my feed. But outside of Twitter, most don't know who they are, and, among those who do, they inspire about as much vociferous love or hate as cheddar cheese.
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      1. TFA Shorty‏ @yuckycatbreath 10 Sep 2019
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        What is Franzen at his worst? I’m not sure why he is such a bogeyman

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      2. ms nomer‏ @holmes_dame 10 Sep 2019
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        Does Franzen even really like birds? Or has he adopted the stance to be cool like Nabokov?

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      3. Nate Swick‏ @N8Swick 10 Sep 2019
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        As a serious birder for 30 years I can assure you that no one likes birding to be cool.

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