Lila, Intellectualite: Peripatetic Nabokovian
While lots of bright-eyed young women come to New York to take acting classes or become publicists, Lila Azam Zanganeh—an Iranian-French journalist, amateur opera singer and self-described Nabokov...
View ArticleWho Will Publish Nabokov's The Original of Laura? Other Unpublished Materials TK
Vladimir Nabokov’s Laura, the unfinished novel he was writing at the time of his death, is being shopped to publishers and will probably have a home within a few weeks, according to the agent who...
View ArticleOur Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Kafka, Flaubert and Nabokov Come...
The word "dazzle" appears often and in many forms in Adam Thirlwell’s boldly self-indulgent The Delighted States (FSG, $30), which turns the history of the novel, from Cervantes to Nabokov, into an...
View ArticleWylie Agency Adds Nabokov Estate To Its Client List
Less than a month after Dmitri Nabokov announced, following years of indecision, that he would publish his late father Vladimir’s unfinished final novel, The Original of Laura, he has hired a new...
View ArticleWeek of the Jackal: Andrew Wylie Devours 3 Giants, One Living
These days, calling Andrew Wylie “the Jackal” is about as lame as calling Bruce Springsteen “the Boss” or Richard Nixon “Tricky Dick.” It’s an ancient fossil of a nickname masquerading as a mischievous...
View ArticleThe New School is Having a Lolita Party!
The literary Lolita, that is. Today the New School announced a full day of panels and discussions, concluding with a screening of Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the...
View ArticleDepartment of Old But Unreported News: Knopf to Publish Nabokov’s Unfinished...
The UK Independent reports that The Original of Laura, the short novel that Vladimir Nabokov was writing at the time of his death in 1977, is about "an overweight and physically unattractive academic...
View ArticleHoly Lolita! Hefner Hoovers Up First Serial Rights to Nabokov’s Last Novella
Hugh Hefner’s Playboy has acquired the first serial rights to The Original of Laura, the final, unfinished novella of the late Vladmir Nabokov. For years, Nabokov’s son Dmitri indicated that, per his...
View ArticleIf You Want to Read Nabokov’s Laura Early, You’ll Have to Make a House Call...
On Friday afternoon we ran through some of the most exciting galleys hitting the streets this summer. One we didn’t include was The Original of Laura, the final, unfinished novella from the late...
View ArticleWhat Can You Tell From a Fancy Prose Style?
Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita, but he was no mere writer. The famous novelist was also a distinguished lepidopterist, husband, pedant and avuncular cutie--"a fat hatless old man in shorts," as he...
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