Licking Vladimir’s Stamps
It may seem a little outdated to invoke Vera Nabokov’s name, but most writers seem to agree on the need for a “Vera”—a partner or friend, willing to edit and support. In the Atlantic this week, Koa...
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The narrative of the encounter between James Joyce and Marcel Proust gets another tile added to its mosaic. Over at the London Review of Books blog, Ben Jackson reports on the legendary meeting as told...
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If Jesse Eisenberg plays you as a meddler in the personal affairs of geniuses, how do you respond? If you’re David Lipsky, you double down. His extensive review of Letters to Vera, a collection of...
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Questions of Legacy: Talking with Adrienne Celt
If you first found author Adrienne Celt, as I did, through her delightful web comic Love Among the Lampreys, you might not expect that she would also write a thriller grown out of the voice of Nabokov....
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