September 22nd, 2010
Is there a 'number one' writer today?

I really do love the Guardian and their Books Blog:

“Who is number one?” asks Blake Morrison in his Guardian Review essay on Jonathan Franzen. Morrison was recalling the poet John Berryman’s question after the death of Robert Frost. Answer: (to Berryman’s chagrin) Robert Lowell.

Morrison goes on to write that since the deaths of Bellow, Mailer and Updike, the “number one” question is one that “inevitably comes up in relation to American fiction.” Tactfully, he avoids raising the same question about British fiction in 2010. Some of the pack leaders (Amis, Rushdie, McEwan) are getting long in the tooth.

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