Monday, January 03, 2011

Bestsellers and Literature

Gloomy assessment by John Dugdale of Nielson's 2010 bestseller list.

Meanwhile, let's stick our heads in the sand and think about literature. Here's a link to another recent discussion by my reading group, a comparison of two novels about Hollywood, Nathanael West's 1939 The Day of the Locust and Joan Didion's 1970 Play it as it Lays (though one of our group dropped the latter to read a Le Carre instead.)

2 comments:

alex sokolov said...

Here is an example of the bestseller Pushkin's Secret Journal 1836-1837. Published in 25 countries, now new edition is coming in January. This is the most controversial book in Russian and I say world literature

Elizabeth Baines said...

Glad to know about this. Be nice to think it would make next year's bestseller list...