The Alfred A. Knopf Inc. archive at the University of Texas makes you wonder how Knopf ever published all those Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners. “The rejection files … include dismissive verdicts on the likes of Jorge Luis Borges (‘utterly untranslatable’), Isaac Bashevis Singer (‘It’s Poland and the rich Jews again’), Anaïs Nin (‘There is no commercial advantage in acquiring her, and, in my opinion, no artistic’)….”