You can mostly explain Franzen by noting again that he first got notoreity worrying that having a mammoth bestseller might be a bad thing
And he specifically worried that being endorsed by Oprah would mean his readership would skew towards women.
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Which is to say the gender that buys a significant majority of serious novels. So very Franzen.
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