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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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
Then again, Franzen HAS written about people of color. And it's horrifying -- full of stereotypes and skin color fixation. @IChotiner
Have you read Twenty-Seventh City? It's racist. It's a racist plot. And the way he describes people of color is racist. @IChotiner
Haven't read it but know it's based on his hometown St Louis. Interesting he grew up in a black city and has no black friends...
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