Quote of the day

[smoonn]

"Vonnegut was the American Mark Twain." - J. Michael Lennon, the literary executor for Norman Mailer, quoted in an article about Kurt Vonnegut's popularity.

And all these years I thought Twain was American. Silly me.

Comments

[drmagoo]

Wow. That's a special kind of stupid.

[dimfuture]

Hilarious. Maybe it's because Mark Twain was always putting on sophisticated European airs... oh. No, he never did that.

[princeps1978]

Guess living in in England the last fifteen years of his life in protest of American publishers voided his "Americanness".