Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
If you're an author, be careful what you leave lying around. In the event of your death, anything might make it to print. For Vladimir Nabokov, it was a pile of index cards, now published as "The Original of Laura"...
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
It’s really a great thing that Dimitri decided to honor his relative with this shoddily compiled gathering of notes. What a way to ensure the health of a reputation: hang the dirty underwear in the window to make a profit. Let’s come clean—$35 is at stake, after all. Vladimir Nabokov’s posthumously published The Original of Laura [...]
I am not who I think I am or is I whom? (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Book World: Michael Dirda reviews Vladimir Nabokov's 'Original of Laura' - washingtonpost.com
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The Original of Laura, Vladimir Nabokov’s final work, has just been released. To coincide with its publication, Vintage has commissioned new cover designs for the 21 Nabokov backlist titles to which it owns rights. Of course, publishers do this kind of repackaging all the time. (HarperCollins Canada recently did likewise for a couple of Douglas Coupland [...]
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Call me shallow (actually, please don't) but I think a good cover can be a significant component of a good read It's official: the nation is in the grip of Naboko-fever. You can't open a newspaper , switch on the radio , or click open a Guardian blog without stumbling across a reference to the late great Vladimir Nabokov (see what I mean'). Like the Red Aztec Convertible forever lurking in Humbert...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA Vladimir Nabokov Penguin Classics, £25 MICHIKO KAKUTANI
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA Vladimir Nabokov Penguin Classics, £25 MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Open a Bookshop, what could possibly go wrong? (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
For the last 92 days we've been asking, begging, bothering, encouraging and persuading you all to send us a list of your 5 favourite books of all time (in no particular order ). Thankfully, loads of you did as you were asked and we are now able to add up all the (thousands) of votes to find the 50 most popular books, as voted for by you. The BBC did something similar to this in 2003 and looking at...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
In the 2009 art issue of The Believer, forensic artist Barbara Anderson sketches eight notorious literary criminals, working from the (often scant) details found in such classics as Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (see Raskolnikov above). Related posts: Herta Mülller Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature Literature in Miniature:...
My agnostic views & images I like (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Image via Wikipedia This is from the NY Times 2009/6/15 or last Bloomsday! What pearls of wisdom from Colum McCann, who is the author of the forthcoming novel “Let the Great World Spin.”: Vladimir Nabokov once said that the purpose of storytelling is “to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of [...]
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
All the fuss about the publication of Vladimir Nabokov's last "novel" was pointless. The book is just a collection of notes that's been cleverly marketed, says Nathaniel Rich. Let's come clean-$35 is at stake, after all. Vladimir Nabokov's...
Paul Owen (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Before his death in 1977, Vladimir Nabokov - author of Lolita and one of the last century's truly great writers - asked quite specifically that the early work he had put in to his last unfinished novel - The Original of Laura - should be destroyed. This work amounts in fact to not very much, just early notes and fragments of prose which do not in any sense create a book or even the semblance of one....
Book Soup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
A novel in fragments... Vladimir Nabokov wished this rough draft of his final novel burned. But his heirs have decided otherwise. The book consists of 138 hand-written index cards reproduced on every other page, with typeset text below. While the literary value isn't as high as his finished work, it is interesting to see the development of fragmented ideas and to imagine how they might have been arranged...
fredzimny ccccc blog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
NEW YORK, NY.- On December 4 and December 9, Christie's New York will present three sales offering over 550 lots of important and rare books, manuscripts, and maps from distinguished private collections. The first day of sales begins with part II of The William E. Self Library of important English and American Literature and immediately following is Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana...
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