American Literature Oxymoron Sez Nobel Dude
Nobel Guy: Americans R dumb.
Americans: Nuh uh. U R.
When I read that, I was all “are not!”
Books, Moral Outrage | Tim | 
September 30, 2008 6:29 pm
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By Shaft, October 1, 2008 @ 8:02 am
Who decided it would help the cause by gratuitously throwing my employer into the mix here:
“You would think that the permanent secretary of an academy that pretends to wisdom but has historically overlooked Proust, Joyce, and Nabokov, to name just a few non-Nobelists, would spare us the categorical lectures,” said David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker.
“And if he looked harder at the American scene that he dwells on, he would see the vitality in the generation of Roth, Updike, and DeLillo, as well as in many younger writers, some of them sons and daughters of immigrants writing in their adopted English. None of these poor souls, old or young, seem ravaged by the horrors of Coca-Cola.”
By Herman Glimscher, October 1, 2008 @ 9:17 am
that swedsh guy is jus plain stupit
By Tim, October 1, 2008 @ 1:03 pm
Shaft: It’s not that gratuitous. Aspartame has been shown to lead to a marked drop in participation “in the big dialogue of literature.”