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Really bad case of writer envy
Northern California writer Kathryn Chetkovich confesses a major case of jealousy over the literary success of her former lover, who she loved most of all because he was struggling. She doesn't name him, but as Tim Rutten describes in the L.A. Times, it is Jonathan Franzen, winner of the National Book Award for The Corrections.
In the months it took me to produce a drifty 15-page story about the end of a marriage, a short play about a woman who sleeps with her best friend's husband and 70 pages of a screenplay that had the desperate signs of 'learning experience' written all over it, he piled up several hundred pages of his new novel. It was, alas, good.
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Posted by: Angry Photog at July 20, 2003 09:56 AM