The book, a part of so many high-school syllabi, appears to be helping people contextualize political rhetoric; the sales boost even led Michiko Kakutani at The New York Times to write an homage to the still-relevant novel, headlined "Why '1984' Is a 2017 Must-Read".
Maneet Ahuja, a CNBC producer who worked briefly on Wall Street before taking a job at the Wall Street Journal, has written a homage to hedgies.
Wouldn't it have been fascinating to see the New York thriller he wrote, a homage to Preminger's Laura, or his adaptation of the classic Scottish novel Sunset Song?
The services rendered are not entirely selfless, since Beckett hopes to give his own career a "kick in the arse" by writing a homage to Finnegans Wake for a French magazine.
Whether he is writing a homage to Ellington on his 70th birthday, analyzing how the blues infuses Richard Wright's autobiography or reviewing recordings of Mahalia Jackson, Ellison is insightful while keeping the focus on what role the music plays in American culture.
Having written a homage to the young leader of the Paris student revolution, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, in 1968, and spoken on behalf of the Black Panthers at Stony Brook in 1970, he spent a year with the young fighters of the Palestinian revolution in their camps in Ajloun, Jordan.
They like it so much that they've even written a homage to the £1.50 Junior Special Meal.
The Native American novelist Louise Erdrich writes an homage to Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale".
In 1965, Joan Didion wrote an homage to the iconic Wayne character conjured by Ford and other directors: "In a world we understood early to be characterized by venality and doubt and polarizing ambiguities, he suggested another world, one which may or may not have existed ever but in any case existed no more; a place where a man could move free, could make his own code and live by it".
