Maximus Libris! -- Salon has a piece today on the 'maximalist' trend in contemporary fiction (that's 'maximalist' as opposed to 'minimalist'), which irritates critics no end despite the fact that most of the alleged practitioners are critically praised -- including some of my favorites, like Jeffrey Eugenides, Zadie Smith, Dave Eggers, of course DFW, the brilliant Jonathan Lethem, and the loathsome yet talented Jonathan Franzen. Hmm, maybe it should be called 'Jonathanism'...