America's 'Booker Of Bookers' (Or, How Flannery O'Connor Is Like Salman Rushdie)
"In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, [Flannery O'Connor's] collection 'The Complete Stories' was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest's 60-year history." The competition was formidable: collected stories of John Cheever, William Faulkner and Eudora Welty as well as Ellison's Invisible Man and Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. New York Times 11/19/09

Posted November 19, 2009 10:14 PM