Time recently caused a lot of news in the blogosphere for slapping Jonathan Franzen on their cover (the first author to do so in a decade) and declaring him the “great American novelist.”
Craig Fehrman and the Millions provide great coverage of Time‘s treatment of authors and the continual seesawing between what Fehrman describes as high and lowbrow lit. Especially of interest is a grouping of all 83 author covers from the 20’s to the present.
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