Synopsis
An alphabetically organized guide to 225 of the most insteresting authors of the twentieth century features biographical profiles, reviews, and bibliographies of writers ranging from Margaret Atwood and Paul Auster to Alice Walker and Tobias Wolff, along with essays and recommended reading lists by some of these noted authors. Original.
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About the Author
Laura Miller is Salon.com's New York Editorial Director.
Adam Begley is book editor for the New York Observer.
Reviews
Can't decide what to suggest for your book club's next selection? Now that Oprah has made fiction cool, it seems only fitting that Salon, the hip electronic magazine, would come to the aid of the reading-group crowd. This guide to contemporary authors of literary fiction ("whose major works were published since 1960") falls somewhere between cutesy book chat and a shorthand version of Masterplots. Each entry, from Edward Abbey through Stephen Wright, contains a listing of the author's works, a one-or two-page overview of the oeuvre, and a few read-alike suggestions. Sprinkled throughout the text are sidebar lists and essays by well-known writers (Erica Jong's favorite "smart and sexy" novels). Inevitably, the quality of the entries varies dramatically--from book-report bland to genuinely insightful. But that's the fun of this kind of book: browsing at top speed, dismissing as you go, and then being brought up short by a nugget like Jonatham Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn [BKL Jl 99]) on Bernard Malamud. If your commitment to lit crit extends only as long as it takes to drink a latte, this is the book for you. Bill Ott
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