This week in the magazine, Jonathan Franzen writes about his trip to Alejandro Selkirk, a Chilean island in the South Pacific, named for the Scottish sailor who was likely the model for Daniel Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe,” but also known as Masafuera: Farther Away. (Visit Facebook to read the full article). Franzen hopes to see a rare bird while there, but his principal reason for making the trip to the island is to mourn his late friend David Foster Wallace and to scatter some of his ashes.
Franzen has shared some of his photographs from the trip, presented here with excerpts from the piece.
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