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**I suspect he lumped them together, pretty much, as symbols of American
consumer and popular culture. He was, in principle, against all clubs,
and bookclubs had this added component to them of being virtually
all-female in the 1950s, composed of the class that some would call
"bored housewives." We know that -- regretfully to some of us -- VN
didn't have a very high opinion of women's potential as writers; I
suspect his opinion of them, en masse, as readers was not that high
either. GD#*
From: friedman@nnm.cc.nm.us
Are we talking about literary discussion groups, or about
companies like the Book-of-the-Month Club? And which was Nabokov
talking about?
Jerry Friedman
consumer and popular culture. He was, in principle, against all clubs,
and bookclubs had this added component to them of being virtually
all-female in the 1950s, composed of the class that some would call
"bored housewives." We know that -- regretfully to some of us -- VN
didn't have a very high opinion of women's potential as writers; I
suspect his opinion of them, en masse, as readers was not that high
either. GD#*
From: friedman@nnm.cc.nm.us
Are we talking about literary discussion groups, or about
companies like the Book-of-the-Month Club? And which was Nabokov
talking about?
Jerry Friedman