It's time to embrace American culture again

[Robin Landseadel]

. . . The monstrosity of the Bush administration has disfigured a  
nation.
This has led to entirely unjust fictions being swallowed about American
culture. Just recently, Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary of the Nobel
Academy, opined that the American novel is conservative and hidebound
compared with European fiction. How can any literary critic have missed
the greatness, and experimentalism, of a Thomas Pynchon? But I am
absolutely certain that some readers in their twenties in this country  
have
missed out on Pynchon, not to mention Roth, Updike and all those other
giants, because they don't want to read American novels. . .

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2008/nov/04/american-culture-jonathan-jones
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