One where literary culture was held dear, when Susan Sontag and Gore Vidal were publicly positioned as the celebrated artists we’d look to for perspectives on the big issues of the day, instead, of say, Caitlyn Jenner and that one kid with the haircut from the British boy band that announced a hiatus earlier this week. In the media, Franzen is all too happy to publicly mourn for some other, more golden time. He is chagrined and scandalized by kids today, with our student debt and our start-ups, with our selfies and our Snapchat. Franzen, with his noted self-seriousness, his ambivalence about modernity, his anger at the world for turning, always turning, stands in for a character type, one frequently dismissed on Twitter with the ironic (but dead serious) nouning of “old.” Franzen, at 56, is an Old. Please forgive me for being the boorish person who attempts to explain the gag. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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