Nabokov List:

 

I have been rereading Richard Ohmann’s  “The Shaping of a Canon: U.S. Fiction 1960-1975” (I can supply the full bibliographic reference if anyone wants), where he discusses the marketing factors that create best-sellers.  He “exclude[s] novelists of foreign origin (Asimov, Kosinski, Nabokov),” but he doesn’t say why.

 

Eric Hyman

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