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"A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Canon/A panel of critics tells us what belongs on a list of the 100 most important books of the 2000s … so far."

At Vulture (NY Magazine). Worth a click just for the illustration (by Tim McDonagh). I love the drawing of Joan Didion (whose "Year of Magical Thinking" is in the canon), one of many drawings of writers, all colorfully jumbled together.

Any project like this is arbitrary, and ours is no exception. But the time frame is not quite as random as it may seem. The aughts and teens represent a fairly coherent cultural period, stretching from the eerie decadence of pre-9/11 America to the presidency of Donald Trump. This mini-era packed in the political, social, and cultural shifts of the average century, while following the arc of an epic narrative (perhaps a tragedy, though we pray for a happier sequel). Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, one of our panel’s favorite books, came out ten days before the World Trade Center fell; subsequent novels reflected that cataclysm’s destabilizing effects, the waves of hope and despair that accompanied wars, economic collapse, permanent-seeming victories for the once excluded, and the vicious backlash under which we currently shudder. They also reflected the fragmentation of culture brought about by social media. The novels of the Trump era await their shot at the canon of the future; because of the time it takes to write a book, we haven’t really seen them yet....

The Trump era books haven't come out yet, but one of the books in the canon is "The Plot Against America," by Philip Roth (September 30, 2004), and...

It can be easy to forget that The Plot Against America, which today reads as a parable for Trump’s America, was widely received as an allegory for W.’s — an interpretation that Roth encouraged by insisting the opposite. The novel begins in a buzz of fear and the pitch increases steadily, unbearably. But it’s Roth’s doomed hero, Walter Winchell, whose speeches have the uncanny urgency of prophecy: “How long will Americans remain asleep while their cherished Constitution is torn to shreds by the fascist fifth column of the Republican right marching under the sign of the cross and the flag?”

An interpretation that Roth encouraged by insisting the opposite... ha ha. Years ago, that used to be called "reverse psychology." It used to come up in sitcoms. We'll use reverse psychology. That is, when we want to get somebody to do something, we'll act like we want the opposite. It's like playing hard to get. When you suspect someone's trying to do that to you, you say they "protest too much."

Maybe I'll read "The Plot Against America." And by read, I mean let it read itself to me as I take my walks about Madison. I've read very few of the books in The Vulture's canon. Only "The Year of Magical Thinking" — maybe the only nonfiction book on the list — and some of the stories in "Oblivion." I've read part of "The Sellout." I haven't even read the Haruki Murakami book on the list —  "1Q84" — and I've read 5 Murakami books in the last year. So maybe the "dozens of authors and critics" on their panel are not very much like me.

Vulture also has "The Best Audiobooks of 2018 (So Far)," which influenced me to buy 2 things: "Convenience Store Woman" and "Educated: A Memoir."

Remember the Althouse Portal to Amazon if you want to buy any of these things (including the audiobooks). I like to buy the Kindle version of the book on Amazon and check the box or hit the button to add on the audiobook. You get both for a lower price than you'd pay for just the audiobook, and it's great to be able to find things in the text after you've heard them in the audiobook, especially for me, blogging and wanting to cut and paste.

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