I thought the list was pretty fair. Glancy said by telephone. The fact that there were no Indian writers on the list didn't bother me at all. This list goes to the beginning of the century. From the perspective of these 10 people, part of the elite, white-thinking establishment, our work is flawed.
Minorities have different ways of telling the story.
So you can't compare. James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright. James Agee, Margaret Atwood, John Barth, Louise Erdrich, Nadine Gordimer, Zora Neale Hurston, Kazuo Ishiguro, Doris Lessing, Mary McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Ondaatje, Katherine Anne Porter, Richard Powers, Thomas Pynchon, Leslie Marmon Silko, John Updike and Eudora Welty. Find out what's on the list.