- 1994 Esquire article "278 books you should have read by now" included just the USA/ChaoticAge choices
- he accidentally omits Freud from the long list
- he shortchanges modern British fiction
- his fiction choices would be wholly uncontroversial to the editors of the New York Times Book Review (ie, timid/safe)
- the long list seems hastily patchworked from multiple sources
- he claims not to have bowed to political correctness/affirmative action, but the list says different
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Bloom's oddities
Some random observations on Bloom's book:
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His readings of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake seem entirely secondhand, molded by other critics.
I just think it's fascinating that I found the "first blogger". Will Conley was here.
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