twitter had a field day making fun of old man franzen.ing, i considered wearing a diaper for a year because i don't understand what babies even are. jonathon franzen adopting a kid to understand the youth is like buying a laundromat to figure out where all of your socks are going in the wash. and considering adopting jonathon franzen to figure out whatnot to say in interviews. that's a good one. >> that's the best thing he has ever said. >> and andy levey tweeted, you're crazy if you think today's story will stop people from continuing to pretend they read the corrections. that's a real burn. >> burn! >> joanne, you are one of these young people franzen was trying to relate to. what was he talking about? >> why was it the generations are trying to understand each other? why is that necessary? each one think these are superior to the other -- each one thinks they are superior to the other. what is fascinating is, two things, he was considering adopting, but changed his mind because hissed for helped him change his mind and not his family.

we'll find out she is like jonathan franzen. >> i believe she is a woman. sorry about that. >> so we are almost out of time. i want -- this is my last question. we might have time for one more. but what do you think is harper lee's ultimate legacy? how has he worked shaped southern american fiction and will she be read 100 years from now? is her place secured or are we going to forget about her? she is still selling almost a million copies a year now. maybe not. but in a hundred years who knows. >> i think that -- i really do think it's time for "to kill a mockingbird" and harper lee's work to be taught in hoyt classes because there's so much you can learn about american hoyt from her work, with mock mock mcbeing set in 19 -- "to kill a mockingbird" being set in 1935, and being inspired by the scottsboro trial and then the publication date in 1960, there's a lot that happens in between there. you can talk about tom robinson and that one of the motivations to the great migration. ow can talk about the scottsboro trial. talk about brown v. board, now that you