Listen Up
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:57:20 -0400
Will writes:
> I've heard that the list maker owns right to 64 of the titles included,
> and would wager those involved were mostly male...
For those of you who wish to direct your indignance at actual persons,
the members of the voting panel were:
Daniel J. Boorstin (formerly of the Library of Congress)
A.S. Byatt (possibly Scottie in disguise)
Edmund Morris (a historian)
Shelby Foote (a historian)
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (conspirator)
John Richardson (fishmonger)
Vartan Gregorian (an honest man)
Gore Vidal (hair product manufacturer and founding member of the
P.M.R.C.)
William Styron (the one who voted for _Catcher_)
The names, retrieved from today's AP article, are accurate, though I'm
not sure about the professions. The principal culprit may be one
Christopher Cerf, chairman of the Modern Library board (Random House),
who was also on the panel. He says that the novels were not chosen
according to publisher, but clearly he's lying. Will was dismissed
early on from the voters for setting off a pair of wind-up chattering
teeth at the initial meeting.
I suspect that everyone in conjunction is responsible for excluding
Garcia Marquez, perhaps for failing to write his novels in English.
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Matt Kozusko @parallel.park.uga.edu