Thread: Is the American Novel Dead?
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Old 05-18-2012, 10:24 PM   #45
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American writers are better than they've ever been. I can think of several novels written by Americans within the last few years that are brilliantly written and each unique in its way:

Heir to the Glimmering World, by Cynthia Ozick
Visit to the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan
Lord of Misrule, by Jamie Gordon
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
and, how about Michael Chabon?

Oh, and Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson. A book at least the equal of anything written by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, etc.
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