![]() ![]() THE INTERESTINGS is a novel about six friends who meet at a summer arts camp in the 1970s, following them through their teen, college, and eventually adult years. I call them “the modern classics,” and one of my favorites is Meg Wolitzer’s THE INTERESTINGS. They’re books that have lasted, but we can’t yet predict where they’ll be in a century (though if they’re not on our bookshelves, we’ve done something terribly wrong). The third is a bit harder to define: they’re the ones published in the last fifty years or so by masters like Junot Díaz, Jay McInerney, Joan Didion, and Toni Morrison. The second, contemporary hits (yay, publishing!) that I’ve got to stay on top of to know what’s what. The first is the classics (Austen & Co.). On my Goodreads shelf, you can pretty distinctly divide the books I’ve read into three categories. ![]()
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