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Freedom, Jonathan Franzen [book jacket removed] (M, 20s, could be a J Crew model, baby blue pants, gray Nikes, Q train) http://bit.ly/bhyQlG

So this—people reading Freedom without the book jacket in public places—is a thing, right? Hope so! Which is why I’m ordering up a story with anonymous quotes from literary types, some embarrassed to ostensibly enjoy Franzen and others shamed by only being a few hundred pages into the book by now, like, a few weeks after it was released. (Is this the opposite of a status galley? I’m confusing myself.) Oh, and it’d be perfect if this could be written in, say, the next four or five hours so I can read all about it on the plane, while I wait for my roommate to make his way through a jacketless copy of Freedom.

Also, I know that this is just a thing of convenience, and I do it with hardbacks all the time, but it’s not like common sense has gotten in the way of a juicy trend story before.