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Wednesday March 10th, 2010

The (Most) Popular Crowd

With a year under the site’s belt, I invite you (if you’re relatively new around here, or even if you’re not) to scroll through the up-to-date index and sample some reviews. If you’re interested in what’s been most popular around here, the most visited individual post by far is “Fired From the Canon,” last summer’s argument against several well-regarded books. Most people took it in the open-to-counterargument way it was intended, but it also rubbed several people wrong. Second-most popular is Natalia Antonova’s moving but sharp-eyed take on reading (and loving) Lolita as a survivor of childhood abuse. Rounding out the top five are my skeptical take on Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, our list of books that deserve to be read 100 years from now, and Deborah Shapiro’s smart, very funny review—from the earliest days of the site’s existence—of Eve Babitz’s memoir of Los Angeles.