Interesting post here at the Starcherone Press blog, wherein Ted Pelton assembles an alternative list to the NY Times' predictably underwhelming ranking of the "best" fiction from the past 25 years (Toni Morrison's Beloved tops the list, by the way). Here's the money quote from Pelton, who explains all-too-well what's wrong with the Times' masturbatory gesture:
Only 2 women, 6 books of the 22 written by Philip Roth, and the backdoor inclusion of John Updike's Rabbit cycle (though half had been written before 1980) were among the other suspicious aspects of the list. As well, the list favors well-published, realist, what one might safely call establishment novels.
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