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Underworld by Don DeLillo
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Underworld by Don DeLillo. Reviewed by Ted Gioia. The New York Times. Surveyed 124 writers and critics to. Determine the best work of American fiction during the last twenty-. Five years, Don DeLillo's. Finished in second place with. Eleven votes. Only Toni Morrison's. Votes, ranked ahead of DeLillo's massive 1997 novel. Almost a half-century of history is crammed into. And the constant interaction of the. Diverging plot lines with pop culture events and. Socio-political milestones adds to the piquant.
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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
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Great works of fiction. Published since 1985. These. Books represent the finest. Literature of the current era,. And are gaining recognition as. The new classics of our time. In. Reviewed by Ted Gioia. Marilynne Robinson is a peculiar author. After. All, how many novelists contribute an article to. The bottom line: they weren't. Just mindless prigs, despite what you may have. Heard to the contrary.) And how many. Contemporary authors, instead of sharing. Their thoughts about Mailer or Bellow or. He worri...
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The Human Stain by Philip Roth
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Great works of fiction. Published since 1985. These. Books represent the finest. Literature of the current era,. And are gaining recognition as. The new classics of our time. In. Reviewed by Ted Gioia. Nathan Zuckerman figured as a recurring. Character in Philip Roth’s fiction for more. Than a quarter century before the publication. Measure, this stand-in for the author –-. Zuckerman is a novelist who frequently. Reminds of us of Mr. Roth - would have. Been ready for retirement in the year 2000. Any auth...
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
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Great works of fiction published. Since 1985. These books. Represent the finest literature. Of the current era, and are. Gaining recognition as the new. Classics of our time. In this. Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Reviewed by Ted Gioia. The period leading up to World War II was the Age of Heroes in the. United States. During this era, Americans were introduced to Buck. Rogers (who first appeared in. In 1928), Dick Tracy (1931), Flash Gordon. For a story of ...
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The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Great works of fiction. Published since 1985. These. Books represent the finest. Literature of the current era,. And are gaining recognition as. The new classics of our time. In. Feast of the Goat. The Feast of the Goat. By Mario Vargas Llosa. Reviewed by Ted Gioia. When the Colombian magazine. Surveyed 81 experts to pick. 100 best novels in Spanish. Published during the last 25 years,. The Feast of the Goat. Mario Vargas Llosa’s gripping account of a. Only Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s. Territ...
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Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Beloved by Toni Morrison. Reviewed by Ted Gioia. No novel of recent years has been more honored than Toni. The book received the Pulitzer Prize in 1988,. And was a major reason for Morrison winning the Nobel Prize in. Literature five years later – a distinction all. The more striking when once considers that. Only three other native-born US writers. Earned this prestigious award during the. Second half of the 20th Century. More. The New York Times. And critics to determine the best book of. Also challeng...
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White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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Reviewed by Ted Gioia. The year formerly known as Y2K began with euphoria and not—as. Many suspected—a computer crash. As subsequent events proved,. A different sort of crash was just around the corner. The dot.com. Bubble wouldn't burst for a few more weeks—the NASDAQ reached. Its all time high on March 10, 2000—so the. Fin de siècle. Sense of good times and. Prosperity could hang around for a bit. Longer. Even the publishing industry felt. The exuberance, irrational or otherwise,. Catholic, Jehovah's W...
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The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
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Great works of fiction. Published since 1985. These. Books represent the finest. Literature of the current era,. And are gaining recognition as. The new classics of our time. In. The Fortress of Solitude. Reviewed by Ted Gioia. More than any other writer of his generation, Jonathan Lethem has. Delighted in mixing up highbrow and lowbrow styles. Pulp fiction. Recipes and high literary aspirations somehow. Peacefully coexist with each other in his works,. And the most puerile fantasies are elevated into.
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Craig Timberg: New Web site for Tinderbox
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Washington Post journalist Craig Timberg hosts a conversation about AIDS in Africa, along with a mix of lighter stuff about African music, wine, politics, journalism and other things on his mind. Please join me by hitting the word "Comments" at the end of any item. Wednesday, February 22, 2012. New Web site for Tinderbox. Posted by Craig Timberg. February 27, 2012 at 1:30 PM. Dear Mr. Timberg:. February 28, 2012 at 4:30 AM. I have just done an export and sbo. November 5, 2012 at 5:09 AM. Dr Livingstone's...
