Listmania vs. Lake Woebegone
1 Oct, 2009 in Andrew Seal, Edmond Caldwell, Helen DeWitt, John Guillory, The MillionsX-posted at Plasma Pool. There is an interesting emerging conversation about The Millions‘ recently published “Best [Books] of the Millennium” list on a number of blogs I follow. First, Edmond Caldwell over at Contra James Wood questions the whole premise of list-making, associating such lists with the predominantly corporate character of the imprints represented on […]