Timeless pop art and ephemeral classics · 9:49pm May 9th, 2017
Texts worth reading--worth reading now, and worth reading two hundred years from now--coordinate the personal with the national and the international; they embed the instant in the instant's full context and long history. It's what the Odyssey does and what Middlemarch does and what Invisible Man does and what Jonathan Franzen and Marilynne Robinson's recent novels try to do.
--Eric Bennett, "The Pyramid Scheme", in (Harbach 2014), p. 71-72: