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Books of the Century: A Hundred Years of Authors, Ideas, and Literature

Tekijä: New York Times Book Review, Charles McGrath (Toimittaja)

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Books of the Century is an extraordinary collection of the best writing about books and authors published in The New York Times Book Review, America's most widely read journal of the literary arts. Arranged chronologically from 1896 through 1997, this rich chronicle leads the reader through a century of historic literary achievements, while also providing memorable portraits of the most significant writers and thinkers of the era. Often the critics are as distinguished as the authors and books they review: Eudora Welty's sparkling discussion of E.B. White's Charlotte's Web, John Updike's perceptive review of J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey, and W.H. Auden's appreciation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring are a few of the memorable critiques contained within these pages. In addition to dozens of influential reviews of seminal books, Books of the Century includes several special features that will delight all booklovers. Essays includes such highlights as Alice B. Toklas evoking Jazz Age Paris and Dr. Seuss chuckling over children's sense of humor. First Impressions features the initial reviews of such luminaries as Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Dashiell Hammett, Saul Bellow, Flannery O'Connor, and Derek Walcott. Interviews offers such unique voices as Willa Cather, Vladimir Nabokov, Milan Kundera, and Norman Mailer, heard with force and clarity. Letters revives some remarkably keen and unexpected insights, like Alan Greenspan's passionate defense of Ayn Rand's legacy and William Manchester's recollection of H.L. Mencken's contribution to the American language. Oops! recalls reviews that panned soon-to-be classics such as Catch-22 and Catcher in the Rye on their first appearance, showing that even The New York Times Book Review errs on occasion. Editors' Choice, an annual feature chartered in 1972, and running here through 1997, reflects our changing literary tastes.… (lisätietoja)
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Any time you make a review or release anything to the world, you make a snapshot of a particular time and sensibility. The smallest thing can affect the mood of the reviewer; perhaps they did not have breakfast that morning, or maybe they never really liked a particular genre or idea. In any case, whenever something is published or printed, it becomes dated in several weeks. With the advent of the internet, this turnover rate has increased further, to the point where I don’t know what is hip with the kids of today.

Books of the Century is a collection of reviews, interviews, essays and short pieces called first impressions from the New York Times Book Review Column. The main thing that this shows is that no person or reviewer is infallible. They may dislike or hate something for little reason, or for a huge reason. Starting its coverage back on the date of February 20, 1897, with a review of The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James and ending on October 5, 1997, with a review of Underworld by Don Delillo, the book does indeed cover a century. This fact makes the book an interesting talking point. For instance, there are some reviews of books that were successful but not well received at the time of publication. These are headlined as “Oops.”

The other interesting thing about this book is that it covers reviews of things that I wouldn’t have seen fit to review. For example, one of the reviews is about a collection of Crossword Puzzles. It discusses this “fad” with an air of interest. I guess I just assumed that Crossword Puzzles always existed in newspapers. I never thought of it as having a beginning that one could record. However, given the rise of Sudoku puzzles as of late, I suppose it was naive of me to think in that manner.

Alongside the reviews and all of that are little asides that describe events that happened in the years covered. It mainly covers things that happened in the world of literature. Did you know that 1949 was the first time the reviewer’s name was printed alongside the review? I didn’t, but now I do.

So this book is pretty good. It is not even flawed in the sense that it is printed material since it is a printed collection of reviews on printed material. The meta goes deep with this one. While I wouldn’t be interested in buying it new, I would get it from the library or purchase it secondhand. ( )
  Floyd3345 | Jun 15, 2019 |
excellent reference book and a great place to start when looking for a book to read. ( )
  LauGal | Aug 16, 2016 |
Books about Books, Anthology
  lector51 | Nov 24, 2012 |
Selected book reviews, letters, essays, commentary, and Editor's Choice lists from the New York Times Book Review, beginning with Henry James, The Spoils of Poynton, in the Feb. 20, 1897 issue and ending with Don DeLillo. Underworld, in the Oct. 5, 1997 issue. There is an index. In his introduction, Charles McGrath aptly described the book as offering "a vivid, entertaining, and at least occasionally enlightening sense of literary immediancy--of what it was like, of initial and immediate reaction, when some of the most important or influential books of the century first came to view." ( )
  KCummingsPipes | Jun 11, 2011 |
Op het WorldWideWeb is het boekenarchief van de New York Times met zo'n 50.000 recensies het beste en meest uitgebreide overzicht van informatie over boeken dat er is. Sinds enige tijd ontvang ik iedere week een e-mail met daarin informatie over nieuw verschenen boeken. Ook lees ik zeer regelmatig oudere artikelen om ideeën op te doen voor nieuwe boeken om te lezen. De recensies zijn vrijwel altijd goed geschreven, bieden veel informatie en zijn niet te lang (gemiddeld 2 A4-tjes).
IN 1997 bestond de "Book Review" van de New York Times 100 jaar. Deze gelegenheid werd aangegrepen om de oude jaargangen door te bladeren en daar een flinke hoeveelheid boekrecensies, essays en interviews uit te halen om daar een boek mee te vullen. Het boek is voor een veellezer als ik zeer onderhoudend, enerzijds om te lezen wat er is geschreven over boeken die ik ook heb gelezen en anderzijds om ideeën op te doen voor nog te lezen boeken. Omdat de stukjes maar een paar blz beslaan leent het boek zich goed om er iedere dag een halfuurtje in te lezen. Een waarschuwing: de mensen van de "Book Review" zijn zeer gelletterd en gebruiken veel moeilijke woorden. Voor de leesfanaat!
UItgelezen: woensdag 27 december 2000 ( )
  erikscheffers | Sep 15, 2009 |
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Acknowledgments
Thanks should be extended to all the members of the Book Review staff who worked on the original centennial issue: Michael Anderson, Alida Becker, Katharine Bouton, Don Bruckner, Margalit Fox, Tom Ferrell, Phyllis Gelfand, Caroline Rand Herron, David Kelly, Peter Keepnews, Michael Lichtenstein, Patricia T. O'Conner, and Arlene Youngman.
Introduction
To read through one hundred years of The New York Times Book Review is to be reminded, forcefully, that almost nothing lasts.
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Books of the Century is an extraordinary collection of the best writing about books and authors published in The New York Times Book Review, America's most widely read journal of the literary arts. Arranged chronologically from 1896 through 1997, this rich chronicle leads the reader through a century of historic literary achievements, while also providing memorable portraits of the most significant writers and thinkers of the era. Often the critics are as distinguished as the authors and books they review: Eudora Welty's sparkling discussion of E.B. White's Charlotte's Web, John Updike's perceptive review of J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey, and W.H. Auden's appreciation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring are a few of the memorable critiques contained within these pages. In addition to dozens of influential reviews of seminal books, Books of the Century includes several special features that will delight all booklovers. Essays includes such highlights as Alice B. Toklas evoking Jazz Age Paris and Dr. Seuss chuckling over children's sense of humor. First Impressions features the initial reviews of such luminaries as Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Dashiell Hammett, Saul Bellow, Flannery O'Connor, and Derek Walcott. Interviews offers such unique voices as Willa Cather, Vladimir Nabokov, Milan Kundera, and Norman Mailer, heard with force and clarity. Letters revives some remarkably keen and unexpected insights, like Alan Greenspan's passionate defense of Ayn Rand's legacy and William Manchester's recollection of H.L. Mencken's contribution to the American language. Oops! recalls reviews that panned soon-to-be classics such as Catch-22 and Catcher in the Rye on their first appearance, showing that even The New York Times Book Review errs on occasion. Editors' Choice, an annual feature chartered in 1972, and running here through 1997, reflects our changing literary tastes.

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