Monday, May 22
The Great American Novel?
Early this year, the NY Times Book Review's editor sent a letter to a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages asking them to identify "the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years." The results - in some respects quite surprising, in others not at all - provide a rich, if partial and unscientific, picture of the state of American literature, a kind of composite self-portrait as interesting perhaps for its blind spots and distortions as for its details.
What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?
What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?