The Guardian is hoping you’ll say yes, and then help them winnow the shortlist down to one. They explain their somewhat controversial criteria here.
- William Faulkner
- Saul Bellow
- Philip Roth
- John Updike
- John Steinbeck
- Sinclair Lewis
- Toni Morrison
- Ernest Hemingway
- Edith Wharton
- Cormac…
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NO. NO NO NO. ANY LIST THAT CELEBRATES EDITH WHARTON IS NOT OKAY.
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cheesypuffcass said:
uh, where is JD Salinger?
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Sorry, no Melville, no take serious.
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Yeah. Seven women. What the fuck?
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thomaschattertonwilliams said:
Nabokov is considered an American and there is No Ralph Ellison or Truman Capote, but there is Ursula K Le Guin?
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Seven are women (boldface mine). I don’t mean any disrespect...any male...
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Cripes. Where does one start?
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earlmilford reblogged this from livefromthenypl and added:
Edith Wharton is on the list. That’s all I care about. Oh, and that Summer got a mention.
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themodernoblivion said:
Burroughs!? Kerouac did all the heavy lifting! Burroughs didn’t even really write Naked Lunch. It was assembled piecemeal by Kerouac and Ginsburg from piles of incoherent ramblings.
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Give us your final picks!
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misstessmer said:
Ughhhh…someday, a long time from now, the “vogueness” of Ernest Hemingway will finally wear off. I don’t know when. But I hope I’m there to see it.
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sexorchocolateorpillowsorclouds said:
they forgot henry james!!
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