51. Valzhyna Mort "Factory of Tears"

50. George Pelecanos "The Turnaround"

49. Jonathan Miles "Dear American Airlines"

48. Joe Wenderoth "No Real Light"

47. Robert Hass "Time and Materials"

46. Harper Lee "To Kill A Mockingbird"

45. George Orwell "Animal Farm"

George Saunders

VICE MAGAZINE INTERVIEW

44. Luc Sante "Kill All Your Darlings"

Luc Sante's "Living With Music Playlist"

The one and only comment I have ever made in the comments section of any website (aside from agreeing with Michael Nicoloff about how rad that Ghost Town DJ's song "My Boo" is) was a response to Rebecca Walker's "Living With Music Playlist." Usually these things are filled with the usual suspects: Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground, Talking Heads (all of whom I love, of course). So it was nice to see someone talk about Black Star and Yaz. Same goes with the above, with Luc Sante's list, probably the only time you'll ever see Rich Boy mentioned in the New York Times Books section.

My Repertoire is U.S.S.R.

Not necessarily

43. Caroline Knox "Quaker Guns"

42. Michael Chabon "Maps and Legends"

41. Mike McGonigal "Loveless"

40. Steve Erickson "Zeroville"

Steve Erickson/Bookslut interview

39. James M. Cain "Double Indemnity"

38. Rae Armantrout "Up to Speed"

37. Raymond Chandler "The Big Sleep"

SO MUCH:

(as Erica would say)

36. Michael O'Brien "Sleeping and Waking"

35. Steven Millhauser "Dangerous Laughter"

THIS IS WAY BETTER

than that Liv Tyler movie.

More pairings: two great rap videos set in school.

34. Tao Lin "Bed"

33. Peter Gizzi "The Outernationale"

32. Marjane Satrapi "The Complete Persepolis"

31. Matthew Rohrer "Rise Up"

30. Mary Jo Bang "Elegy"

DO YOU KNOW

what's wrong with the new Rick Ross song?



Yep. More of this.

Also, the video--the Ross video--makes no sense. Snoop and Slim Charles in a botched something or other? I just don't buy it.

29. Alice Munro "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage"

28. Denis Johnson "Tree of Smoke"

Two great black and white rap videos, old school and new...

27. Susan Choi "A Person of Interest"

26. Jean Valentine "Little Boat"

"IT'S AN HONOR JUST TO BE NOMINATED:"

Junot Diaz has won the Pulitzer Prize.

Which makes me two for two (just in case you were counting) in terms of my-favorite-book-from-the-previous-year-winning-the-Pulitzer.

Poetry and (so I'm told) drama winners are exactly who you expected.

Apparently customers who bought Christine Schutt's "All Souls" also bought one of Jennifer Weiner's novels and the recently released Disney film "Enchanted."

Also: who knew Schutt's new book was out already?

I can't wait.

25. Matthea Harvey "Modern Life"

24. Ann Patchett "Bel Canto"

23. Herman Mellville "Bartleby the Scrivener"

APROPOS OF NOTHING:

TOURNAMENT OF BOOKS

I was worried for a second:
"Remainder" over "Then We Came To the End?"

Is Stephen Curry moonlighting on their (er, his, McCarthy's) team?

But they got it right in the end.

Sorry Thea's bookclub. Congratulations Mr. Diaz.

22. Jhumpha Lahiri "Unaccustomed Earth"

21. Prageeta Sharma "Infamous Landscapes"

20. Chris Martin "American Music"

19. Rebecca Curtis "Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money"

18. Richard Price "Lush Life"

James Wood on Richard Price's dialouge

17. Jennifer Egan "Look At Me"

16. Cate Marvin "Fragment of the Head of a Queen"

(This is super low quality video [plus they spelled her name wrong on YouTube] but whatever)

15. Charles Brock "Beautiful Children"

14. Daniel Clowes "Ghost World"

13. Elaine Dundy "The Dud Avocado"

12. August Wilson "Gem of the Ocean"

11. Troy Jollimore "Tom Thomson In Purgatory"

10. Dawn Lundy Martin "A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering"

9. Alice Notley "In the Pines"

8. Dorothea Lasky "Awe"

7. Eileen Myles "Sorry, Tree"

6. Rae Armantrout "Next Life"

5. Sarah Manguso, Dave Eggers, and Deb Olin Unferth "One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box"

4. Adrian Tomine "Shortcomings"

3. Graham Foust "Necessary Stranger"