Status Updates From Farther Away

Franzen moves between surgical analysis, impossible intellectual vigour, intense empathy and vulnerability, and then a clinical and emotional combo-ed ability to bring things to a logical conclusion. Loved most of these lectures, essays, speeches and stories (though often feeling out of my depth and looking a word up), but v v glad to have again ventured into Franzen non-fiction (all the better for it).

I like it whe n writers write about being writers