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#24:  SOME CONTEMPORARY POETS.  Even those of us who love poetry end up baffled by the sheer mass (and expense) of verse now being...

#23:  TWO CONTEMPORARY NOVELISTS.  If you want to see someone at play in the fields of the English language, Roddy Doyle will supply....

#22:  THE SLENDEREST FOUNDATIONS OF FAME.  Voltaire, Balzac, Trollope, Hugo, Joyce Carol Oates:  truly prolific writers can be a little...