I suggest instead of reading anything by Franzen you simulate the experience by nodding proudly at your own erection for a couple of hours.
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This was a good 5,000th tweet, good work me.
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Hey, "good work me" is also a pretty succinct distillation of all things Franzen.
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Why do you need a gender quota for your reading list?
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Not a quota. Genuine interest.
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Why does the gender identity of the author matter to you? Why not just read good books?
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I read 10 books and just one's by a woman, I wonder if I'm missing something good. Maybe I am. Only way to find out is to ask.
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Fair enough-respect FOMO, but personally wouldn't define it in terms of gender. I'd just want to read the best even if all women or all men.
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I'm always wondering what I'm missing.
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With all due repect, a reporter's job is to go out and find the untold story, not sit back and "wonder" & ask others to do it for them.
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Well, that used to be a reporter's job, but now that job is often doing social media "engagement." Regardless how tone-deaf.
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We made a list for occasions exactly like this.http://the-toast.net/2016/06/16/token-lady-writer/ …
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But truly, if you are up for reading contemporary fiction from many different perspectives, I made a thread.https://twitter.com/mariskreizman/status/897816980253749249 …
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Don't mean this as an attack - I realized the same was true for me, and started devoting my summer reading entirely to women.
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I don't take it as one!
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I applaud you. I look at what I read, too. I'm deficient in modern Hispanic writers, for example.
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Hey! Modern Mexican writers Valeria Luiselli, Guadalupe Nettel and Argentinian Samantha Schweblin are all amazing + available in English
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I'd also recommend "Umami" by Laia Jufresa. Excited to check these out!
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Oh yeah she's great
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Okay. Added at least one book of each to my list. I'm so, so excited about the Mexican writers because I studied in Puebla. Again, thanks!
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