great american novel
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #122: Nathan Hill
“Write what you want to write, he said, and let other people deal with taxonomies.”
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Really Good Fiction
Infinite Jest recently turned twenty, a birthday so momentous it merited a new edition of the tome for college students to display on their bedside tables. In light of the renewed discussion about David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus, D.T. Max…
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The Great American Novel(s)?
This idea — that one person, and only one person, in any given generation can possess the intellectual prowess, creative might, emotional intelligence and writing chops to produce a novel that speaks truth about the disparate American whole — is…
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Mark Twain Still Popular…In China!
Did you know that Mark Twain is one of the best known foreign writers in China? Neither did we. There is a well earned, and unabashed image of Mark Twain as the quintessential American author and for good reason. The…
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Is the Great American Novel Still a Thing?
Adam Kirsch is breaking down the need for and the existence of the Great American Novel at Harvard Magazine: But of course, if the American Dream weren’t still alive, somewhere in our culture and our minds, it wouldn’t be necessary for…
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The Greatest American Novel
The Millions “asked nine English scholars to choose one novel as the greatest our country has ever produced.” The results span a wide range subjects, authors, and time periods. Most you’ve heard of, a few you haven’t, but all of them…
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Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers Sets Fire to Precedent
It seems that a woman may have written the next ‘Great American Novel.’ And male critics are freaking out about it.