9/11 books
An article in USA Today states that out of over 1,000 books about 9/11, only about 30 of them are novels, of which "none has seized the public imagination."*I wonder why that is? I don't think it's unique to 9/11 itself. Certain things are just so horrible that they require no imagination whatsoever. There are several classic nonfiction books about environmental problems: An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, but how many environmental novels even get published, much less widely read?
Not the two I wrote, that's for sure. To get my tree-hugging butt published I had to cloak my green ideas in fantasy and romance and hope nobody noticed. (Shhh....don't tell anyone.)
So, read any good 9/11 books lately?
*I'd really like to read Don DeLillo's Falling Man, but only because I love Don DeLillo, not because I want to read about 9/11.
Labels: environment, reading
5 Comments:
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Unknown at 9/12/2007 2:13 PM
But that's just me. I don't judge anyone else who wants to relive it, if that's how they deal with it.
Also, I have a hard time now separating the experience of 9/11 with the way it's been used to propagandize a colossally stupid war and beat our civil liberties into an unrecognizable pulp.
Posted by:
Jeri at 9/12/2007 2:18 PM
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Unknown at 9/12/2007 7:27 PM
9/11 also plays a role in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.
Posted by:
Andrew at 9/13/2007 5:34 PM
I also remember a comic story (Human Target, I think) about a guy who used the day to fake his own death.
Posted by:
Rob S. at 9/13/2007 7:56 PM
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