Nobel Chief Thumbs Literary Nose at American Writers

Seems that European authors are the only ones worth reading, according to the Nobel Literature Chief:

"The U.S. is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature," Engdahl said. "That ignorance is restraining."

And American writers respond with a verbal volley of their own:

"You would think that the permanent secretary of an academy that pretends to wisdom but has historically overlooked Proust, Joyce, and Nabokov, to name just a few non-Nobelists, would spare us the categorical lectures," said David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker.

It's a step above "Your mama!" and "I know you are, but what am I?"