92Y Podcast: Poetry Center Archive: Brian Boyd on Vladimir Nabokov: A Mastery of Particulars
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brian Boyd on Vladimir Nabokov at the 92nd Street Y on December 5, 1992.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Nabakov specimen boxes
Super Punch (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Nabokov Collection features new book covers for Vladimir Nabokov's 18 books. Since he collected butterflies, the designers created specimen boxes for the covers. Via . *Previously: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea specimen box . * Buy cigar boxes at eBay .
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Books of The Times In a Sketchy...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Books of The Times In a Sketchy Hall of Mirrors, Nabokov Jousts With Death and Reality By Michiko Kakutani Published, New York Times: November 9, 2009 Given the shape of Vladimir Nabokov’s own life, it’s hardly surprising that death — and its cousin loss — permeated his fiction like a potent but noxious perfume. Jerry Bauer Nabokov THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA (Dying Is Fun) By Vladimir...
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Art director’s daunting project: redesigning Nabokov
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | yesterday
The assignment: redesign Vladimir Nabokov’s book covers, all 21 of them. The result: 21 designers, and, in a nod to the author’s passion for butterfly collection, 21 specimen boxes. See also: Michael Bierut’s eulogy for designer Fred Marcellino, previously at Design Observer, and Nabokov Under Glass.
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The Nabokov Collection
Design Observer (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The assignment: redesign Vladimir Nabokov's book covers, all twenty-one of them. The solution: twenty-one specimen boxes, the kind used by butterfly collectors like Nabokov, each created by a different designer.
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No one knows anything, and other dilemmas of the e-book era | Robert McCrum
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
It's even harder to adapt to the digital gale sweeping through publishing when big 'old-media' stories about canonical authors are still grabbing everyone's attention William Goldman, who wrote Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, is almost as well known for his coruscating portrait of the movie business, Adventures in the Screen Trade . This, in turn, is celebrated for its dictum about Hollywood executives...
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The Original of Laura review-overview
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The most recent addition to the complete review is a review-overview of Vladimir Nabokov's much-anticipated The Original of Laura . This 'book' has gotten an enormous amount of publicity because Nabokov-son, -heir, and literary executor Dmitri toyed with the press (and, especially, Ron Rosenbaum, who I hope is getting a cut of the profits for all his help in fanning the (non-)flames) like a master,...
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Nabokov's secret novel is out
Times of India (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Vladimir Nabokov wanted it burned on his death, but “The Original of Laura” survived and now, 32 years later, the unfinished novel is to be published for the first time.
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Comps reading
Dialogue (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita makes me sick. I don't get it. This will probably get me some gross hits. But, I just feel physically sick with some passages. I don't get the attraction t reading books that explains such a disordered mind in such detail.
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Friday Firsts (on a Sunday)
Just One More Page... (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
This month Wendy supplied us with a list of first lines and asks which books we’ve read and which would make it to our tbr list on the basis of the first line. Bold = the books I’ve read Pink = tbr pile 1. Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick 2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen, Pride...
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It's always the same old story
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Great writers never die, they just fade away Literature and longevity make poor companions. If most writers' reputations are made, or at least begun, before the age of 40, then very few novelists put many runs on the scoreboard after 70. Arguably, they can even start to damage their reputations, as anguished fans concede that their idols have feet of clay. Philip Roth is often cited as a great contemporary...
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Nabokov's unfinished -- and unburned -- novel reappears
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Vladimir Nabokov wanted it burned on his death, but "The Original of Laura" survived and now, 32 years later, the unfinished novel is about to be published for the first time. Despite Nabokov's dying wish, publication of the manuscript, which was compiled on index cards, is set for November 17 in New York and London, giving what many hope will be an unexpected glimpse of his genius. The...
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Published: The Original of Laura, Vladimir Nabokov’s secret last novel
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
To say that it is long-awaited hardly does it justice. For more than 30 years the last book written by Vladimir Nabokov sat in the vaults of a Swiss bank, seemingly destined to gather dust for all time.
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Publishing Lolita
cearta.ie (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
If Lady Chatterly’s Lover isn’t obscene, how about Lolita? Yesterday’s Times has a fascinating story about Peter Carter-Ruck’s advice to George Weidenfeld in advance of the UK publication of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel (with some added links): Lolita: how a lawyer’s cunning plan paid off for Vladimir Nabokov With all the brouhaha over Carter-Ruck allegedly stifling...
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I'll Have You Know
d r i f t g l a s s (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
That when I read this in the Sun Times : North Side mystery: Where did falling ice come from? 'The whole house shook and it felt like 'Boom!'' says homeowner. BY KARA SPAK The ice chunk cometh. A large piece of ice fell from the sky Wednesday evening, tearing roofing from a North Side home before shattering into dozens of cloudy ice cubes and ice balls. "The whole house shook and it felt like...