Time magazine, the press secretary for middlebrow thought in America, has now officially abandoned its readers. A fantasy, an unfinished philosophical jawbreaker, two mysteries, a collection of cartoons, a far-fetched debut, and a graphic novel — these are the “best books” it can recommend to readers with limited time for reading and a non-specialist interest in new fiction? Where are the big fat reads? The thick novels, thick with characters and incident, in which readers can lose themselves?Jonathan Franzen tried to write such a novel last year in Freedom, although he insisted that his nearly 600-page book — in the 19th century it would have been called a triple-decker — belonged “solidly in the high-art literary tradition.” (It didn’t.)
Well, at least they didn't pick Ed King.
Why aren't they more worked about Lev Grossman naming GRRM's book #1 without disclosing that Martin blurbed THE MAGICIANS? That's the true journalistic disgrace here.
ReplyDeleteI left that for you to mention, Ed. I didn't want to jump the gun on you.
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