Miscellaneous
There's a great SmartBitch Day rant about American history in romances at JMC's. Very, very funny if only because it's so pathetically true.
Also, New York Times printed a list of the top American fiction of the last 25 years. Any opinions on the list? Love some? Hate some? Confused by some? Sense any literary snobbishness happening?
Winner
Beloved;Toni Morrison
Runners Up
Underworld; Don DeLillo
Blood Meridian; Cormac McCarthy
Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels; John Updike
American Pastoral; Philip Roth
Received Mutiple Mentions
A Confederacy of Dunces; John Kennedy Toole
Housekeeping; Marilynne Robinson
Winter's Tale; Mark Helprin
White Noise; Don DeLillo
The Counterlife; Philip Roth
Libra; Don DeLillo
Where I'm Calling From; Raymond Carver
The Things They Carried; Tim O'Brien
Mating; Norman Rush
Jesus' Son; Denis Johnson
Operation Shylock; Philip Roth
Independence Day; Richard Ford
Sabbath's Theater; Philip Roth
Border Trilogy; Cormac McCarthy
The Human Stain; Philip Roth
The Known World; Edward P. Jones
The Plot Against America; Philip Roth
books, NYT top 25,
2 comments:
Ack--I've not read one on the list, what does that say about me?
Don't worry Tara. I only have one of these & I haven't read it. Not only that, I dislike Philip Roth & he's on the list several times! I thought several of my favorite authors ought to have had at least one on the list somewhere, but no such luck.
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