Lunch With Jonathan Franzen | Lucy Kellaway | Financial Times | 28th December 2016

First published a year ago, now ungated as the FT kindly brings its Lunch with … archive out from behind the paywall. The general drift of the conversation here, much of it pegged to Purity, is that Kellaway wants to like Franzen, and thinks he gets an unfairly bad press — but Franzen won’t make it easy for her. “His idea of himself as a truth-teller is only partly why people find him so aggravating. There is something about the man himself, and his variety of superior maleness, that also annoys”