"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Ted Gioia is a writer and musician. He is the author of Delta Blues, The History of Jazz and, most recently, The Birth (and Death) of the Cool. You can follow Ted Gioia on Twitter at www.twitter.com/tedgioia.
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In Cormac McCarthy's The Road, a man and his son struggle for survival in the aftermath of a devastating cataclysm.
In "The Feast of the Goat," Mario Vargas Llosa delivers a gripping account of a political cult of personality run amok.
Breaks almost every rule of fiction, from the typographical to the metaphysical.
Ian McEwan's masterful novel starts out like a Jane Austen country romance but ends up a post-modern meta-fiction.
Philip Roth delivers a coming-of-age story about an indignant teenager whose conflicts seem destined to lead to an early grave.
A.S. Byatt masterfully juxtaposes a modern day love story and a secret Victorian romance in a novel of academic intrigue.
“I don’t believe in God, but I miss Him,” author Julian Barnes claims in this peculiar book about spirituality and death.
In an age of down-scaled novels, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest was four pounds of prose, and no fat!
In Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami creates a strange world where magical dream landscapes intersect modern urban life.
Dead at age forty-six, he will be remembered as one of the most brilliant writers of his generation.
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