style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">It must be somewhat galling to be Jonathan Franzen. You’re the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Corrections (2001) and Freedom (2010) that bookend the first decade of the 21st century like colossi. You’re one of the few authors to appear on the cover of Time magazine; even Oprah likes you (although you have mixed feelings about her). Yet just as you’ve hit your literary peak, you find that the book itself is under attack from a mixture of ironic detachment, electronic gizmos and an increasingly distracted population dosed up on an omnipresent culture of low-brow entertainment.