Anonymous Patron writes “Scripps Howard News Service: When The New York Times Book Review recently named the most important works of American fiction of the past 25 years, topped by Toni Morrison’s Beloved, some quibbled over the winner, others over the poll’s methodology and even the usefulness of such an exercise.
John Updike would later question many of the same issues. But initially, he was busy _ scanning the list for his name. When he finally spotted his “Rabbit” books at third place, he breathed a sigh of relief. But not for long.
“Sometime later,” he tells me, slipping into second person, “you wonder why these other books came first.”
You gotta love a man who has won nearly every prize the literary world has to offer and who can still angst like an insecure debutante.”
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