Early this year, the Book Review’s editor, Sam Tanenhaus, sent out a short letter to a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, asking them to please identify “the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years.” The results – in some respects quite surprising, in others not at all – provide a rich, if partial and unscientific, picture of the state of American literature.
And as interesting, in some cases, for the reasoning behind the choices as for the choices themselves.
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