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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19910217
Author:David Streitfeld

A Few Choice Words

THERE'S a parlor game that literary folk sometimes play: How many of the abundance of titles being produced by contemporary writers, they speculate, will be remembered 50 years from now?

John Updike, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, Gore Vidal, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - if history is any guide, most of their words will fall away. Among the prolific Victorians, the only one with an ample number of works readily available is Dickens. But of the 17 volumes in one standard edition of Thackeray, who cares about any other than Vanity Fair? George Gissing wrote at least two ...

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