Craig Ferman digs through Time's archives:
Time put 14 authors on its cover in the 1920s, 23 in the 1930s, seven in the 1940s, 11 in the 1950s, 10 in the 1960s, eight in the 1970s, four in the 1980s, four in the 1990s, one in the 2000s, and, now, Franzen in 2010.
Alan Jacobs muses on the author's latest here. It got a rave in the Economist.
2006-2011 archives for The Daily Dish, featuring Andrew Sullivan