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from “‘The Shining 2 by Jonathan Franzen’ by Stephen King” by Blake Butler, via VICE magazine: Jonathan Franzen takes a job as caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in hopes of going nuts. He’s enjoyed coming to take the traditional American literary landscape by its face, but now he’d really just like to loosen up and maybe write a novel not about white people getting into emo shit. He’s not married anymore and has no children, so it’ll be just him up there, which is exciting because he can walk around the hotel naked all day with his junk all hanging out for months. He even decides to leave his John Irving collection at home, despite having slept every night for the past twenty years with all those novels massed around him on the mattress while clutching to his chest a copy of his own book, How To Be Alone. The only things he packs are his typewriter, some shirts, ten pairs of Duck Head shorts, and his “Indulgence Pack” (to use during the evenings, only after he’s done his work) consisting of an iPhone (for calling some other Jonathan when he feels sad), an iPad (for Fruit Ninja and trolling Facebook on his secret account), and an iPod (for Rod Stewart and Jay-Z).

from “‘The Shining 2 by Jonathan Franzen’ by Stephen King” by Blake Butler, via VICE magazine:

Jonathan Franzen takes a job as caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in hopes of going nuts. He’s enjoyed coming to take the traditional American literary landscape by its face, but now he’d really just like to loosen up and maybe write a novel not about white people getting into emo shit. He’s not married anymore and has no children, so it’ll be just him up there, which is exciting because he can walk around the hotel naked all day with his junk all hanging out for months. He even decides to leave his John Irving collection at home, despite having slept every night for the past twenty years with all those novels massed around him on the mattress while clutching to his chest a copy of his own book, How To Be Alone. The only things he packs are his typewriter, some shirts, ten pairs of Duck Head shorts, and his “Indulgence Pack” (to use during the evenings, only after he’s done his work) consisting of an iPhone (for calling some other Jonathan when he feels sad), an iPad (for Fruit Ninja and trolling Facebook on his secret account), and an iPod (for Rod Stewart and Jay-Z).

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