Jonathan Franzen Mans Up
When guests come into Studio 360 and get settled, I tend to have a bit of friendly small talk with them before we start theOfficial Interview. But asJonathan Franzenand I chit-chatted earlier this week as we prepared to talk about his terrific new novelFreedom, one bit of that talk wasn’t so small. When I passingly, joshingly used the verb phrase ‘to man up,’ it struck a nerve.
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