“America wants a Nobel Prize in literature. America demands it! America doesn’t understand why those superannuated Swedes haven’t given one to an American since Toni Morrison in 1993. America wonders what they’re waiting for with Philip Roth and Thomas Pynchon. America wonders how you say “clueless” in Swedish.”

Here’s some thought-provoking mulling on the Nobel Prize in Literature, to be announced on Thursday. 

Posted at 1:37pm and tagged with: Nobel Prize, lit,.