Blessed are the list makers, with their sharp pencils, their certainties, their mix of words and numbers. Walt Whitman made lists. Nabokov made lists. Last year, while declaring in Time magazine that “literary lists are basically an obscenity,” Tom Wolfe admitted to having made many in his life, and then introduced a new one, ranking the best novels in the world.
In This Weeks Magazine: Rank and File – The Medium – Magazine – New York Times Blog
Blessed are the list makers, with their sharp pencils, their certainties, their mix of words and numbers. Walt Whitman made lists. Nabokov made lists. Last year, while declaring in Time magazine that “literary lists are basically an obscenity,” Tom Wolfe admitted to having made many in his life, and then introduced a new one, ranking the best novels in the world.
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