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American Prospect, The, December, 2001 by Lehmann, Chris
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NO SOONER HAD AMERICAN culture bid its sober official farewell to irony than the literary world veered headlong yet again into the gruesome (yet ever comforting) ironies of cultural warfare. The occasion was novelist Jonathan Franzen's widely publicized affront to Oprah Winfrey, who had made his novel The Corrections the choice of her book club for the month of October.
Among Franzen's trespasses was the observation that as a writer "solidly in the high-art literary tradition" he felt a bit squeamish about the Oprah's Book Club imprimatur; indeed, the embossed book-club ...
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