The 20 Writers Mentioned in the Review of Jonathan Franzen’s “Purity” in “The New Republic,” in…

The 20 Writers Mentioned in the Review of Jonathan Franzen’s “Purity” in “The New Republic,” in Order

20. Lionel Trilling
19. George Orwell
18. William S. Burroughs
17. Joseph Heller
16. Norman Mailer
15. William Gaddis
14. Thomas Pynchon
13. Philip K. Dick
12. Richard Hofstadter
11. Marcel Proust
10. Charles Dickens
9. William Shakespeare
8. Joseph Conrad
7. Saul Bellow
6. and 5. Woodward and Bernstein
4. Milan Kundera
3. Don DeLillo
2. William Thackeray
1. Anthony Trollope

— Sam Tanenhaus, Sex, Lies, and the Internet, The New Republic

, August 3, 2015.