Jonathan Franzen with David Foster Wallace at the book launch for Infinite Jest.Did you know that Jeffrey Eugenides and Rick Moody lived together in San Fran in the '80s?
OK OK, but did you know that Mary Karr and David Foster Wallace had a "stormy" relationship in the '90s?
Or that Jonathan Franzen spent his late 20s desperate for friends?
I learned all of this just by reading the first page of a New York Magazine story on what might be today's hottest literary cohort. And then I learned how it all ties into their work, whether they intend it to or not. There's love, betrayal, deceit, murder. Everything you also find at the average Thousand Fibers meeting.
Don't believe me? Read for yourself.
--KSB
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