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September 11, 2007
By Michael Cader

9/11 Remains the Stuff of Nonfiction USA Today continues the seemingly annual tradition of noting that 9/11 has engendered lots of books, but they’re almost all nonfiction. They tabulate over 1,000 nonfiction 9/11-related books published in the past 6 years, and “only about 30” novels, of which “none has seized the public imagination.” On their own bestseller list, only two 9/11-related novels have charted: “The most ambitious 9/11 novel, Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, reached No. 99 on the list. Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close peaked at No. 97.” (They cite Bookscan sales for Falling Man of 39,000 […]

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