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From: Talk of the Nation (NPR)
Date: 19980722
Author:Ray Suarez, Washington, DC

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RAY SUAREZ, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Ray Suarez.

Time magazine couldn't bear to wait for the end of the 20th century before summing up its top stories in glitsy special editions.

The American Film Institute anointed its "100 Greatest Movies" with a few years left to run in this most hype-drenched of centuries. Now, Random House has waded in to the lists game with its Modern Library rundown of the greatest novels in the English language of the 20th century.

And between number one "Ulysses" by James Joyce, a novel more talked about than ...

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