> Despite all this evidence, I’m actually not sure that Saul Bellow is a writer who is still going to be talked about 40, 50, 100 years from now I'm not sure w

> Despite all this evidence, I’m actually not sure that Saul Bellow is a writer who is still going to be talked about 40, 50, 100 years from now I'm not sure what it means to ask which writers will be remembered. There isn't a monoculture anymore, and the prominence of the literary novel is a lot less than it was in 1973 anyway. So what does it mean to be remembered? What counts as being remembered? Setting that aside, none of the authors in that article will be remembered by everyone, but everyone he lists will be remembered by a small, passionate, connected community in 100 years, I can do everything short of guaranteeing that.