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I read this last year and I think it helped me settle on urban development as the area of law I want to go into. Cities, and suburbs, and crowds, and the type of privacy in the crowd one finds in cities, figure prominently into serveral of the stories.
A parting gift from Ranger Tim. On the strength of The Corrections alone, and a few New Yorker essays, Franzen is one of my favorite writers, and in this collection he dissects my obsessions with a delicacy, generosity, and precision that I hope for from any neurosurgeon I might ever come to employ. When I read essays like this I wish I didn’t have to work for a living: there is so much to learn out there, and so little time.
napaxton
Cambridge
Brilliant. Treats his reader with utter respect and an entire lack of condescension.
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