Saturday, May 13, 2006

Best Writing

Those who know me well, know that i value reading higher than almost any other activity ( i said almost). Here's why. Enjoy.

 The New York Times
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May 21, 2006

What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Early this year, the Book Review's editor, Sam Tanenhaus, sent out a short letter to a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, asking them to please identify "the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years." [Read A. O. Scott's essay. See a list of the judges.] Following are the results.

THE WINNER:

Beloved

Toni Morrison
(1987)

THE RUNNERS-UP:

Underworld

Don DeLillo

(1997)

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

(1985)

Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels

John Updike

(1995)

(1990) (1981) (1971) (1960)
American Pastoral

Philip Roth

(1997)

THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ALSO RECEIVED MULTIPLE VOTES:

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

(1980)

Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

(1980)

    (This book was not reviewed by The Times.)
Winter's Tale

Mark Helprin

(1983)

White Noise

Don DeLillo

(1985)

The Counterlife

Philip Roth

(1986)

Libra

Don DeLillo

(1988)

Where I'm Calling From

Raymond Carver

(1988)

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien

(1990)

Mating

Norman Rush

(1991)

Jesus' Son

Denis Johnson

(1992)

Operation Shylock

Philip Roth

(1993)

Independence Day

Richard Ford

(1995)

Sabbath's Theater

Philip Roth

(1995)

Border Trilogy

Cormac McCarthy

(1999)

(1998) (1994) (1992)
The Human Stain

Philip Roth

(2000)

The Known World

Edward P. Jones

(2003)

The Plot Against America

Philip Roth

(2004)


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