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Friday, September 25, 2009 at 01:09PM - The Best Fiction of The Millennium (So Far)
I haven't been weighing in much on any book world discussions lately; I'm enjoying reading and writing at the moment, and to get involved in the discussions of either might ruin that enjoyment. But I did want to weigh in on this because oh my goodness are you kidding me The Corrections? And everyone knows I melt into a puddle of warm tinglies at the slightest mention of anything to do with David Mitchell, but I think even DM would acknowledge that 2666 belongs higher than Cloud Atlas. Gilead deserves some nudging up the ladder as well. And where, pray tell, is Snow? Then again, these things are always subjective. As proof, my top book of the last decade? Darkmans. (My sympathy to the listmakers, the dreamers of dreams.) - Teenage Diaries: The most embarrassing thing you'll ever read
The UK version of Sarah Brown's fabulous Cringe book is out now, and I'm veryembarrassedPLEASED to have had an excerpt from my own 1993 journal included. If you think I write purple prose now, wait until you see the kind of stuff I wrote when I was seventeen and liked to pretend I'd actually done drugs. - View from the Q train
The moment I stop noticing this view is the moment I know I should just leave New York.
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