NPR's best reads of 2013

[Tom Beshear]

Corrigan is soooooo earnest, bless her heart.

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From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: <kelber at mindspring.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: NPR's best reads of 2013


> The book had one of the only three women to review it do so on NPR. Meg 
> Wolitzer, writer, prolific.
> Her lack of enthusiasm was palpable, her kinda passive-aggressive 'well, 
> it's kinda interesting but.." review
> might be what has guided their selection, full as NPR is with the 
> full-throated enthusiasms of
> Maureen Corrigan and Alan Cheuse.....
>
>
>
> On Thursday, December 12, 2013 4:14 PM, "kelber at mindspring.com" 
> <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> A notable absence. I've broadcast my disappoint with BE, but I still think 
> it belongs on any list of notable books for 2013. It's Pynchon, for 
> (whatever's) sake, and ought to be read and discussed, at the very least. 
> Not clear if everyone over at NPR read and disliked it, or if they didn't 
> bother. Pynchon's least good book (in my apparently minority opinion, 
> anyway)still merits at least an honorable mention on any best of 2013 
> list.
>
> http://apps.npr.org/best-books-2013/#/_
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