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On the Daily Beast, addressing some of the criticism directed at Jonathan Franzen's new novel, Freedom:

"The establishment agonizes most over the touchiest of size issues: coverage. And that's why a lone tweet from New York Times best seller Jodi Picoult--'Would love to see the NYT rave about authors who aren't white male literary darlings'--shifted the debate from whether ... the novel is 'a masterpiece' ... to whether it deserves any notice at all."

--8/31/10

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