I've read Louis Menand on "Lady Chatterley's Lover,"
I've liked Louis Menand's writing since the early '90s, although I think back then he might have been writing for Harper's. In any case, I lived in NYC for the '93-'94 school year, and at one point I impulsively looked up his name in the phone book (a resource that existed back then), and he was right there! I didn't call him or go stalk his house or anything and I'm sure there were plenty of other famous names in the phone book, but I was pretty startled to see someone I considered famous living like a regular person. Now, of course, even regular people are hard to look up.
I haven't seen the Franzen but I bet it's worth reading.
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