100 Notable Books

The NYT’s annual booklist is out, in case you missed it.

(BTW, Rex’s annual list of lists is also in process.)

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Tim says:
November 28, 2008 at 4:51 am
I was going to blog about this a few days ago, but: take a look at the “fiction and poetry” section of the NYT’s 100. It contains five books of poetry:
• Mary Jo Bang, Elegy
• Juan Felipe Herrera, Half of the World in Light
• Matthea Harvey, Modern Life
• Clive James, Opal Sunset
• August Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
Why are poetry and fiction grouped together? Does it skew the poems towards the novelistic?
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