Sam s Curtiousity Chapter 3
“I don’t understand how he picked up that Mencken!” Rachel fretted. “American literature,” Patrick responded. “Those shelves have our American literature. Twain died in 1910, Mencken around the middle of the century. Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner are there, too. And others. They’re the easy parts of the taxonomy.” “What do you mean?” “Well, what about T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and Saul Bellow ... or even Henry James?” “Why are they problems?” “Well, Eliot was born in the US, but spent...