Let's make this birthday one to remember.

74 years old (Born on May 15, 1951)

Happy Birthday, Steven Moore! Another year older and still brilliantly dissecting novels with surgical precision. Your groundbreaking work, *The Novel: An Alternative History*, continues to enlighten readers everywhere—proving once again that literary critics can indeed be rock stars (minus the screaming fans and pyrotechnics).

And let's not forget your novel *Chromos*—a finalist for the National Book Award in 1990—which remains as vibrant today as ever. Clearly, you're aging like fine literature itself: timelessly witty, endlessly insightful—and just a little bit eccentric.

Here's wishing you another chapter filled with laughter, success—and perhaps fewer footnotes this time around!