Why Do People Think Scandalous Novels Couldn't Be Published Today?
Lolita, American Psycho, The Satanic Verses and the state of shocking literature
If you walk into any bookstore, you can find famously scandalous novels like Lolita, American Psycho, and The Satanic Verses on the shelves. These novels are in print—that is, still published—today. Yet somehow people regularly wonder…. could they be published today?
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