Jonathan Franzen's answer on race: "I don't have very many black friends." I honestly doubt he even has one.pic.twitter.com/pn5ewWOH3v
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If all your work is about whites and animals, you're already writing about race. Stunning that neither Franzen nor @IChotiner get that.
you might be stunned that I still don't get it
more like disappointed that, in 2016 when black people are still asking if it's permissible to live, this is your response to me. @IChotiner
please explain what you meant
Hmm. So, your second question to Franzen is if he's ever considered writing about race, right? @IChotiner
Yet (these days) Franzen essentially write about whiteness -- that IS writing about race. Why do you fail to see that? @IChotiner
You don't say "You do write about white people; that's writing about race." You ask about not falling in love with a black woman. @IChotiner
People of color aren't the only ones that have race. White people, whiteness, that's race. They even made it up :) @IChotiner
that's the implicit blessing you receive, I suppose, when society is normalized to your race.
yup, but imagine if he responded - yeah, I write all my books about the white race!!
O QUE FOI que o Franzen aprontou agora?
Agora, vamos lá, perguntar pro Franzen por que os personagens dele não são negros é como fazer essa pergunta ao Spike Lee
É como perguntar porque os protagonistas da Elena Ferrante não são homens. Não cabe esse tipo de pergunta.
Tenho minhas inúmeras restrições a ele, mas esse tipo de pergunta é feita pra pegar o interlocutor.
É como se queixar o porquê do Seinfeld não ter protagonistas negros.
and he doesn't realize he's *always* writing about race.
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