Jonathan Franzen on Taylor Swift, Binoculars, and Purity

A black-winged Franzen caught in the wild!Greg MartinLast night, acclaimed author and easy target Jonathan Franzen read from his new novel, Purity, in front of a crowd at Town Hall that was three times larger than the one Rand Paul drew last month. Franzen seemed genuinely nervous to read in front of so many people, but after he took off his jacket and started to speak instead of just looking at the crowd and saying "Yeah, wow, I'm curiously nervous here," he started to loosen up.The section he