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The news of the firing of Mark Schlissel, my university’s president, brought joy to many households last night, not least my own. (He had a relationship, apparently consensual though who even knows, and definitely against regulations, with a subordinate.)

Franzen himself could not have better arranged the details: an anhedonic rich man, trying to pursue…

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