You know, it doesn’t bother me so much that Time Out New York‘s “ultimate NY book bracket” is derivative of the Morning News Tournament of Books. Bracketology is all the rage these days and something like this was bound to happen. No, the thing that gets me is this opening face-off from the “Contemporary/Post-1970” category:
To be fair, one could say that although Flannery O’Connor died in 1964, The Complete Short Stories qualifies as post-’70s literature because it was published in 1971. But would one?