And Not a Single Bodice-Ripper Among Them.


Only a recent Roth reading run has boosted my "score" in the NYTimes' Best Fiction of the Past 25 Years poll.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/books/fiction-25-years.html

And, dear editors, please define these books as those written in the last 25 years. A Confederacy of Dunces, published in 1980, was written, when? the Johnson Administration? By these standards, The Bondswoman's Narrative, the nineteenth-century slave memoir that Henry Louis Gates edited and had published in 2003, would qualify (only it isn't fiction...oh, yeah...but you get the point).
Was not the same with a Mary Shelley novel and a Camus book (The Last Man?), both uncovered/published in the 1990s?
Oh, yeah, and that nutty Gospel of Judas....Didn't that just come out?