You couldn't pay me to read anything by Jonathan Franzen. Just kidding, if someone wants to pay me $5000 or more, I will.
About this project
You couldn't pay me to read anything by Jonathan Franzen. Just kidding, if someone wants to pay me $5000 or more to read one of his books and then make fun of it a lot I will.
Here are my Franzen reading rates:
Freedom: $5,000
The Corrections: $10,000
Purity: $25,000
Breakup Stories: $100,000
The rates are negotiable, but not that negotiable. (You are always welcome to pay me more than the base.) Originally the first marker was going to be $1000, but then I was told I was lowballing prices, so here we are.
Show your support to me, a woman, whose project was inspired by that day of days, International Women's Day.
direct inquiries: @Amy_Corp
Full story here.
Risks and challenges
My greatest risk is potentially reaching my goal and having to read a book by Jonathan Franzen. I mean, can you imagine??
But I am a woman of my word and I am committed to this Kickstarter Campaign.
Learn about accountability on KickstarterFAQ
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Actually no one has asked me this. I don't hate him. Or, rather, I hate him nonspecifically. So yes and no. I hate when male authors spread misogyny. I feel no inclination to read their books. If I raise $25k and have to read Purity, I will almost certainly hate him.
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This is another thing no one has asked me.
If I ever meet Jonathan Franzen, I will probably say, "Hello Jonathan Franzen."
He will not have heard of me because I either won't be famous or I'll be a female author.
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Yes, thanks for asking.
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See this entire kickstarter.
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Brooklyn Magazine called me "very droll." If you like any of this kickstarter at all you would probably like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and the sequel But They Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos. Both are in the book that could be a Jonathan Franzen book in the above picture. Anita Loos is also "very droll."
Other writers I would not necessarily describe as "very droll" but recommend anyway include: Nella Larsen, Dora Alonso, Elizabeth Taylor (who is actually very droll and would probably be one of the first to make fun of her name if she were still alive), Dorothy Parker (also droll), Ama Ata Aidoo, Antonia White, and Audre Lorde. There are many other great women authors I haven't read yet, because that is apparently how reading works until you become self-aware enough to correct it which I have only recently done.
I run a whole site dedicated to this: http://www.uncoveredclassics.com
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I'm trying to be realistic.
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Well first I would buy a lot of medication for all the ensuing stress headaches etc. from having to read Franzen novels. The small remainder would fund my other creative endeavors. (For instance I invested about $2000 building http://www.uncoveredclassics.com/, so it would be nice to make some of that back.)
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Give me your money.
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Funding period
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