/lit/ - Literature

>...American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

I realize he's falling fast in the estimation of the Establishment Left, but Gore Vidal's essays remain some of the most lucid explorations of American politics and history. Compare his work to morons like Stephen King ("Show your taxes chickenshit NYAAAHHH") and you may really think we've reached a historical endpoint.

>as Gore Vidal tartly observed, no one enjoyed Nabokov's books as much as Nabokov did

>“…American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like [Ernest] Hemingway and not seen the joke?”