Vladimir Nabokov

Cast LOL and Emoticons From Your Lexicon

Nick Kolakowski | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Nabokov, How to Become an Intellectual, Lolita, Emoticons, Text Message Emoticons, Emoticon, Text Talk, Comedy News

There is a very special place in hell reserved for whoever created the emoticon. Nor can we blame the scourge solely on text messaging and e-mail: as far back as the 19th century.

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Nabokov, Garcia Marquez "Justify Paedophilia" Says Russian Church

AP | By MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Religion, Banned Books Week, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Book Banning, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox, Books News

MOSCOW -- A senior Russian Orthodox official claimed Wednesday that novels by Vladimir Nabokov and Gabriel Garcia Marquez justify pedophilia and said ...

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Five Books That Blew Our Minds, 1955-1975

Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Noam Chomsky, Vladimir Nabokov, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo?S Nest, Lolita, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Books, Fifty News

At first glance, these books have very little in common -- a racially-charged tome and one of the most praised linguistic publications in history, a "...

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The Weirdest Writing Habits Of Famous Authors

Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Weird Writing Habits, Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Famous Authors, Writing, Books News

From Flavorwire: It's an old topic but it always manages to be interesting -- what did the authors we love do in order to write what they did? Beyo...

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The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Vladimir Nabokov, Author Criticism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Insulting Authors, Harold Bloom, Author Insults, Gustave Flaubert, Books News

Sigh. Authors just don’t insult each other like they used to. Sure, Martin Amis raised some eyebrows when he claimed he would need brain damage to w...

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Who Is Jack Ryan?

Tamsin Smith | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Friendship, Vladimir Nabokov, Werner Herzog, Facebook, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Books News

In terms of memorable opening lines, I'm not sure any author can top Vladimir Nabokov in Lolita for pure poetry and mind-bending eroticism, but Naboko...

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Happy Mother's Day: Psycho Moms In Literature

Amy Wilson | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Anywhere but Here, Stephen King, Psycho Moms, Psycho Moms Literature, Mother's Day, Carrie, Ordinary People, Vladimir Nabokov, Her Last Death, Lolita, Crazy Moms, Books News

As compared to the mommies dearest in these pages, almost any woman can feel like Mother of the Year. A frisson of schadenfreude might be preferable to a entire bouquet of roses.

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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

Read More: Nabokov, Foreign Editions Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, The Book Haven, Harvard?S Museum of Comparative Zoology, Lolita, Lolita Book Covers, USA: The Novel, Books News

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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Death Becomes Them: The Imperfect Art of Posthumous Publishing

HuffingtonPost.com | Gregory Beyer | Posted 06.21.2011

When an author dies, what happens to his unfinished manuscripts? From Max Brod’s famous refusal to burn the papers left behind by his friend Franz K...

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Cure Baldness, Kill Literature?

newyorker.com | Posted by Ian Crouch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nabokov, Baldness in Literature, Baldness, Vladimir Nabokov, Baldness Literature, Baldness Books, Cure for Baldness, Pnin, Baldness Cure, Books News

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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Tasting the Universe

Maureen Seaberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Duke Ellington, Tasting the Universe, Marilyn Monroe, Maureen Seaberg, Vladimir Nabokov, Synesthesia, Books News

I don't know when the colors began. They've always been with me, like the beat of my own heart or the sound of my own breath.

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Dirty Old (Literary) Men: Writing's Filthiest Perverted Geniuses

flavorwire.com | Nina MacLaughlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Literature, Henry Miller, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Charles Bukowski, Geoffery Chaucer, Philip Roth, John Updike, Benjamin Franklin, William Shakespeare, Dirty Old Men, Books News

There has been a lot of talk about books and sex in this space lately, and it's not just because of yesterday's holiday. Anyone who has taken English ...

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Nabokov's Other Gift

Tamsin Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vladimir Nabokov, Arts News

There is so much in ourselves and in others that we must take on faith. Memories, hopes, illusions, these are all bound up in perception. Nabokov shows us that what is "real" is partially made, partially known, and partially a blessed mystery.

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Rote Memorization: Overrated or Underrated?

Justin Snider | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BAM Radio Network, Vladimir Nabokov, Arne Duncan, Rote Learning, Rae Pica, Joan Almon, Standardized Testing, Amy Chua, Rote Memorization, Daniel Willingham, Education, Egypt, Education News

Among the countless catchphrases that educators generally despise are "drill-'n-kill" and "rote memorization." In keeping with their meanings, both sound terrifically unpleasant.

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Sylvia Plath Drew Hotdogs And Borges Sketched Dancers: Famous Authors Are Doodlers, Too

flavorwire.com | Emily Temple | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Author Doodles, David Foster Wallace, Vladimir Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Samuel Beckett, Author Drawings, Sylvia Plath, Mark Twain, Allen Ginsberg, Franz Kafka, Books News

Everybody doodles. There's just something about an idle moment and a blank space on a page that invites a little design or two. Plus, there is some ev...

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On Names

Jeff Klima | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Funny, Youth, Katniss Everdeen, Penis, Nom De Plume, Janus, Al Qaeda, Names, Vladimir Nabokov, Melville, Name, Canine, Hilarious, Fiber, Literary, Book, Books News

There is a two-fold complaint nestled in the plumy thicket of today's screed, good people. And while they (the individual issues of the complaint) are...

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WATCH: Nabokov Love Letters To Be Published This Weekend

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nabokov, Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov Lolita, Video, Vera Nabokov, Nabokov Love Letters, Vladimir Nabokov, Snob Nabokov, Vera Love Letters, Snob Nabokov Letters, Lolita, Snob Magazine, Books News

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

Read More: Umberto Eco, Nabokov, Pale Fire, Jonathan Swift, Unfilmable, William Shakespeare, The Unnameable, A Tale of a Tub, Vladimir Nabokov, Lost Girls, Merry Wives of Windsor, Gravitys Rainbow, Art Spiegelman, Salinger, Journey to the End of the Night, Slidepollajax, Unfilmable Novels, Finnegans Wake, Book Adaptations, Samuel Beckett, JD Salinger, The Waves, Beckett, Unfilmable Books, The Mezzanine, Pynchon, Nicholson Baker, Foucault's Pendulum, The Catcher in the Rye, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Pynchon, Unadaptable Books, Absalom Absalom, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Maus, William Faulkner, Alan Moore, James Joyce, Shakespeare, Books News

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

Read More: Nabokov, Mocha Dick, Hemingway, Herman Melville, Lolita Nabokov, Moby Dick, All the King's Men, The Fountainhead, Dostoyevsky, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Huey Long, Ayn Rand, Gogol, Atlas Shrugged, Alexandre Dumas, Dumas, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Clemm, Melville Moby Dick, Robinson Crusoe, F Scott Fitzgerald, Daniel Defoe, Slidepollajax, Poe, Tolstoy, Lolita, Constance Garnett, Books News

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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Our Knight In Shining Armor

Richard C. Morais | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Cervantes, Vladimir Nabokov, Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, Thomas Mann, Books News

Don Quixote most crucially, is about the eternal struggle between those who believe in the power of the imagination, versus those who believe that looking harsh reality straight in the face is the only true way to live a life.

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Dear Stinkpot: Letters from Louise Brooks by Jan Wahl

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book News, Louise Brooks, Vladimir Nabokov, Jan Wahl, Silent Film, Books, Dear Stinkpot, Books News

It was announced last week that the journals of actress Louise Brooks will be unsealed. She bequeathed them to the photography and film museum with instructions they remain unread for twenty five years. What will they reveal?

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1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Greatest Generation, The Tonight Show, The Roaring Twenties, Hula-Hoops, Sarah Vaughn, Zeitgeist, The Millennial Generation, Marilyn Monroe, Lawrence Olivier, Fred Kaplan, Brando, Dave Brubeck, Guggenheim Museum, Slate Magazine, On the Waterfront, Dinah Washington, Non-Objective Art, I Love Lucy, The Today Show, Bill Haley, Robert Heinlein, James Dean, 1959: The Year Everything Changed, The Silent Generation, Rockabilly, Paul Newman, Abstract Expressionism, Joe Barrett, Jaspar Johns, Chuck Berry, Vladimir Nabokov, Frisbee, Doctor Zhivago, Peanuts. Playboy Magazine, Charlotte's Web, Ingmar Bergman, Rock and Roll, Don't Ask Don't Telll, Jerry Mulligan, David Halberstam, Fats Domino, The Civil Rights Movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dizzy Gillespie, The Fifties, Rothko, Tolkein, Kind of Blue, Miles Davis, Jackson Pollack, Elvis, John Coltrane, Ayn Rand, Martin and Lewis, Modern Jazz, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lenny Bruce, Charlie Parker, The Me Generation, Jack Kerouac, Ella Fiztgerald, The Cold War, Kandinsky, Ray Bradbury, Micro Chip, Sputnik, Brown v. Board of Education, Audible.com, De Kooning, Little Rock, Gen-X, Pepsi Cola, Arthur C. Clarke, Duck-and-Cover, Catcher in the Rye, James Bond, Mort Sahl, The Great Depression, Asimov, Fellini, Books News

Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.

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Nobel Prize Snubs In Literature

Posted 05.25.2011

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' Cover Archive:

biblioklept.org | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Girls, Racy Books, Book Design, Sex, Books, Lolita Book Cover, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Design, Book Cover, Bookcover, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Sexy, Books News

Checkout this great cover gallery archiving over 150 covers of Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece "Lolita."...

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HuffPost Review: Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

It's disappointing that Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel isn't a better movie. Not that it's a bad one. But, were cable standards a little less skittish, it would fit right in on the Biography channel.

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