He says that first of all, people don't read as much as they used to and people know his name, but they don't read his novels.

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Some of the novels and stories you read were, it is probable, laid in your own country of America.

你读的东西，也许是美国化的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

All these things you can read about in these novels, but reading these novels is not just about reading about those things.

所有这些你都能在这些小说里读到，但读这些书不仅仅是为了读这些。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

My goal in this course is to allow you or to invite you to read someof the most compelling novels written in the last little over a half century.

我上这门课的目的,就是让你或者说是邀请你,来读一些刚过去的半个多世纪里,最引人注目的小说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选