Words Jonathan Franzen

Mar 12, 2024 | port-magazine.com | Jonathan Franzen |Words Jonathan Franzen

From 2012: Switch off your iPhone! The novelist argues that technology has no meaning, and that narrative is all we haveI want to start with a story about my father, who was a big do-it-yourselfer. One day, when he was about seventy, he was up on the roof of our house, doing something like cleaning the gutters or rebuilding the chimney, and he fell off. Landed flat on his back, fifteen feet below.