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Not Loving Like

John Brown | Posted 04.21.2012

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John Brown

"Like" is not only America's number one verb, it's, like, its most humongous verbal tic in our, like, most, like, likeable land.

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WATCH: Vladimir Nabokov Marvels Over Different “Lolita” Book Covers

Open Culture | In Books, Literature | May 2nd, 2011 View Comments | Posted 07.03.2011

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In this short excerpt from a TV program called “USA: The Novel,” Vladimir Nabokov comments on different foreign editions of his novel Lolita. ...

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Cure Baldness, Kill Literature?

newyorker.com | Posted by Ian Crouch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eryn Green writes this week at Esquire about research regarding stem cells and male pattern baldness, pointing to a recent study from the University o...

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Evgeni Nabokov Claimed Off Waivers By New York Islanders, Reportedly Not Happy

Posted 05.25.2011

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His bid to return to the National Hockey League has been nothing but complex: Evgeni Nabokov was signed by the Detroit Red Wings yesterday, claimed by...

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WATCH: Nabokov Love Letters To Be Published This Weekend

Posted 05.25.2011

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Vladimir Nabokov, controversial author of "Lolita," left behind a legacy of over 300 letters to his beloved wife of 52-years, Vera. The Russian langua...

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Unfilmable Books

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

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Books and movies have gone hand-in-hand since Hollywood's very beginnings. Some of its greatest triumphs--"The Godfather," "Gone With The Wind," "The ...

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Under The Influence

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

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Writing a book is usually a long, hair-pulling affair for the author. But in the end, only one name appears on the front of the book: their own. What...

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No Time?

The Guardian | John Crace | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lolita. Light of my life. Lo. Li. Ta Very Much. If you wonder where my peculiar interests came from, I should have to say it started when I was 13 wit...

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Nobel Prize Snubs In Literature

Posted 05.25.2011

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Since 1901, the Nobel Committee has honored outstanding individuals in the fields of science, peace and literature with a medal, personal diploma, cas...

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'Lolita'

theparisreview.org | Posted 05.25.2011

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When my dad gave me a stack of his old college paperbacks, I think the education he hoped to foster was aesthetic, not erotic. But one of the books wa...

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'Harry Potter,' 'The Giver,' 'Lolita,' 'Howl'

Dan Wilbur | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Wilbur

"Lolita," for instance, is now "Likable Rapists." It makes you think that perhaps these new titles are what censors out there really see.

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Playboy's Most Scandalous Fiction: Palahniuk, Nabokov, Heller ... Roald Dahl!

Flavor Wire | Posted 05.25.2011

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Playboy playmates generally fit a consistent set of criteria, but the men's magazine is far more varied when it comes to its featured fiction. With an...

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The Top 10 Most Expensive Rare Books Sold On AbeBooks This Month (PHOTOS)

Richard Davies | Posted 05.25.2011

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The list reflects what is treasured in the rare book world and will typically feature some of literature's most famous names alongside obscure authors and titles.

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Nabokov Marginalia: Author Graded New Yorker Stories, Gave A+ Only To Salinger And Himself

The New Yorker | Ian Frazier | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nabokov was also a professor of literature, and in his copy of the New Yorker anthology he gave every story a letter grade. The way he wrote each grad...

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Nabokov vs. Hemingway, Byron vs. Keats, Bronte vs. Austen: The 50 Best Best Author vs. Author Disses Of All Time

Examiner | Michelle Kerns | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yes, hell hath no fury like one author gleefully savaging another author's work. And, lucky for us, there's plenty to be had where that came from. ...

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Top 10 Unreliable Narrators

The Guardian | Henry Sutton | Posted 05.25.2011

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Something strange happened to unreliable narrators in the mid-20th century: they became a little more reliably unreliable, and a lot nastier. In the l...

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Vladimir Nabokov: Rare Photos Of The "Lolita" Author (PHOTOS)

LIFE | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vladimir Nabokov's never-finished novel, "The Original of Laura," has finally been published to great interest and excitement. In honor of the new pub...

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