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My Best of the Decade: Are We Laughing Yet?

by Patrick on October 1, 2009

As regular readers of this site know, I contributed to the “pro” list of The Millions Best Books of the Millennium (So Far).  You can read what I had to say about one of the books chosen by popular decree, Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude, here.  As I stated on this blog, however, I [...]

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Best of the Millennium?

by Patrick on September 25, 2009

I know I’ve been talking about this all week long, but it’s all been building to this moment.  Today, The Millions revealed its pick for the best fiction of the millennium (so far).  The top choice was The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. Author Margot Livesey writes about the book:
Illuminated by Jonathan Franzen’s brilliant prose, bill [...]

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