125 Years of the NY Times Book Review

On Sunday the New York Times published a special 125th anniversary issue of their Book Review. I was very excited to see how large the Review was on this special occasion. There were many more pages than usual... 64 pages of anticipated great reading. 

There were over 30 reviews of books from throughout the 125 years of the published Book Review. There were also a dozen or more interviews with authors over the years and several essays.

Some of the reviews included books by James Joyce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Toni Morrison, Jane Jacobs, Jean-Paul Sartre, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Alex Haley, Doris Lessing, Amy Tan, Edith Wharton, Alice B. Toklas, Dale Carnegie, Rex Redd, Sylvia Plath, Flannery O'Connor and so many more. There were interviews with Gore Vidal, Colson Whitehead, Neil Sheehan, Isabel Allende, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Kurt Vonnegut and more. There was also a section on the development of the crime novel.

There is so much to read. I'm keeping this Book Review near my chair and I will be reading it regularly for the coming month until I've gone through every article cover to cover.