It’s just something that happens when a well-regarded male writer releases a book every ten years. Watch, Jeffrey Eugenides will get the same treatment when his next novel comes out.

-A friend of mine who does publicity for a publishing house on the attention Jonathan Franzen received for Freedom.

Well friend, we’re about to see if you’re right. An excerpt of Jeffrey Eugenides’s new novel,The Marriage Plot, is in this week’s New Yorker. I’m not going to lie: I’m pretty excited to read it.