those who write give advice to those who read

novelists on slate say who their voting for and why. from banks to tan to updike to oates. franzen's got it right about teresa. kinda. sorta.

Jonathan Franzen says:

Kerry, of course. He's the candidate whose defeat Osama Bin Laden (if he's alive) is praying for. I trust him not to pour additional gasoline on the fires that Bush has set overseas. Also, since he's a Democrat, I trust him to exercise a modicum of fiscal sanity and to show a little compassion for the unlucky. Also, his wife is hot hot hot. She'd be a first lady for the ages.