Sunday, May 21, 2006

12 percent

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From NDR at The Rhine River I discover that someone has gone to all the trouble of assembling a list of the twenty five best American novels of the last quarter century.  Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the Times Review of Books, sent out a letter to writers, critics, and other literary muckety-mucks and asked them to name the best American Novel.  The results are striking.  First, I’ve read three of them, including number one.  Second, I’ve read three times more of these novels than NDR.  And third, to paraphrase JBS Haldane, “I’m not sure, but He seems to be inordinately fond of Phillip Roth.”


Posted by Buckethead on 05/21/06 at 12:00 AM
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