{"id":1554,"date":"2013-07-07T19:47:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T00:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2013-07-17T07:37:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T12:37:59","slug":"updike-places-high-on-ews-top-100-books-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/07\/07\/updike-places-high-on-ews-top-100-books-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike places high on EW’s Top 100 Books list"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screen<\/a>If you open up the July 5\/12 2013 Special Double Issue of Entertainment Weekly<\/em> magazine and go to page 96, you’ll see that Updike’s Rabbit quartet was named the \u00a0#8 novel of all time.<\/p>\n

“‘Rabbit’ Angstrom runs from marriage and responsibility and runs smack into them again in Updike’s masterful chronicle of a man’s four-decade race against the American zeitgeist,” the editors write.<\/p>\n

Only F. Scott Fitzgerald and Willa Cather placed higher among American writers, with The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u00a0earning 2nd place and\u00a0My Antonia<\/em> 6th.<\/p>\n

Toni Morrison’s\u00a0Beloved<\/em> came in at Number 9, right behind Updike, followed by E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web<\/em> (#10\u2014children’s books, popular books, genre books, and international authors were all considered), William Faulkner’s\u00a0The Sound and the Fury<\/em> (#12), Harper Lee’s\u00a0To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em> (#13), E.L. Doctorow’s\u00a0Ragtime<\/em> (#15), Cormac McCarthy’s The Road<\/em> (#17), Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick<\/em> (#18), Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita<\/em> (#19), Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove<\/em> (#20), Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy<\/em> (#21), Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man<\/em> (#26), Richard Wright’s Native Son<\/em> (#30), J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye<\/em> (#32), John Irving’s The World According to Garp<\/em> (#34), Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged<\/em> (#36), and Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises<\/em> (#37).<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>Morrison was the only American writer to place twice, with Song of Solomon<\/em> coming in at #52. Alice Walker’s The Color Purple<\/em> made the list at #45, as did Mark Twain’s The<\/em>\u00a0Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em> (#62), Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint<\/em> (#63), David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest<\/em> (#64), Saul Bellow’s Herzog<\/em> (#65), and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22<\/em> (#85). Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club<\/em> barely made the list at 100.<\/p>\n

The article, which runs from pages 94-103, generated so many reader complaints that the editors felt compelled to defend their selection process (click here<\/a>). Topping the list? Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina<\/em>. That Updike is so well thought of by the staff of an entertainment magazine speaks to both the literary merit of the Rabbit novels and their popular appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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