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Off the Shelf
By Julianna Haubner
| Monday, August 29, 2016
On my Goodreads shelf, you can pretty distinctly divide the
books I’ve read into three categories. The first is the classics (Austen
& Co.). The second, contemporary hits (yay, publishing!) that I’ve got to
stay on top of to know what’s what. The third is a bit harder to define:
they’re the ones published in the last fifty years or so by masters like
Junot Díaz, Jay McInerney, Joan Didion, and Toni Morrison. They’re books that
have lasted, but we can’t yet predict where they’ll be in a century (though
if they’re not on our bookshelves, we’ve done something terribly wrong). I
call them “the modern classics,” and one of my favorites is Meg Wolitzer’s
THE INTERESTINGS. READ
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