Congrats to Harvard prof Werner Sollors, whose “A New Literary History of America“—coedited with rock critic Greil Marcus—was named by Entertainment Weekly one of 2009’s best books.

Said EW,

A daring work of alternative scholarship disguised as a collection of essays. This thousand-plus-page history—with a roll call of contributors ranging from Ishmael Reed writing about Mark Twain to Mary Gaitskill on Norman Mailer—is, in a word, awesome….