![]() That only happens once and that happened to me in the 1970s." How to forgive yourself "The same goes for the people and the feel of a town in the 1970s - all of that. ![]() ![]() Childhood memories of weather - a thunderstorm, a snowy day in the Midwest - are incredibly redolent for me. To be experiencing all of that for the first time, fresh, those are indelible memories. "I think it was Faulkner who said that a person is a collection of their memories of weather, or something like that. ![]() Those are the memories that are the deepest. But starting in 1970, I was experiencing everything for the first time: the end of childhood, the beginning of adolescence, and through three years of college. "I don't remember very much from the second half of the 1960s. His latest collection, The End of the End of the Earth, brings together pieces on a range of subjects, from personal history, to Edith Wharton, to the climate crisis.įranzen talked to Eleanor Wachtel from his home in Santa Cruz, Calif. Best known for big, ambitious novels - such as The Corrections, from 2001, and Freedom, from 2010 - Franzen is also an essayist. ![]()
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