Vladimir Nabokov

                   

When authors say, "Thanks!"

chicagotribune.com
yesterday
        

When authors say, The unofficial rule goes like this: As long as at least one leftover turkey leg lurks somewhere in the fridge, Thanksgiving isn't over. It's still appropriate to speak—without fear or embarrassment at seeming...

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Season's readings: writers and politicians pick the best reads of 2008

guardian.co.uk
Nov 29, 2008
        

Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSet during and after the Lebanese civil war, Rawi Hage's extraordinary De Niro's Game (Old Street) is about the bravado and betrayal of two friends. Hage bends the English language to his will, mixes...

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The lost art of browsing; the power of the book inscription

neoneocon.com
Nov 26, 2008
        

Theodore Dalyrmple mourns the decline of the practice of browsing in secondhand bookstores. Now that the internet allows us to zero in on exactly and precisely the used book we might be looking for, it is no longer...

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Mae Mercer: Blues singer and actress whomade her name in Europe and worked with Clint Eastwood

independent.co.uk
Nov 26, 2008
        

When the deep-voiced blues singer Mae Mercer ran away from her native North Carolina to New York in 1957, the 15-year old wasn't planning on going to Europe. Yet, within three years, she was a regular at the Blues Bar in Paris,...

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The future of conversation Words and ideas

hindu.com
Nov 24, 2008
        

Where are the brilliant phrases infused with wit and banter? Conversation and letter writing were once arts naturally and instinctively acquired even as they remained functional means of communication. The cultivation of such...

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Stuart Kelly: Costa isn't everyone's cup of tea

scotsman.com
Nov 23, 2008
        

Published Date: 23 November 2008 Perusing the shortlist for the Costa Awards, it struck me that this is a prize still uncertain of its identity. In its previous incarnation as the Whitbread Awards, it swung between highbrow...

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Love, actually

news.com.au
Nov 21, 2008
        

Immaturity, argues Louis Nowra, may explain why so few male novelists, and even fewer female writers, seek to transform passion into serious art | November 22, 2008 Article from: The Australian LOVE as a subject for serious...

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Nabokov’s last book comes to light

csmonitor.com
Nov 20, 2008 2 related
        

Brace yourself for the literary event of 2009: the posthumous publication of Vladimir Nabokov’s last novel. The novel has been the source of speculation and controversy ever since Nabokov’s death in 1977. The author’s dying...

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Shorties (Sarah Palin as Poet Laureate, My Bloody Valentine, and more)

largeheartedboy.com
Nov 19, 2008
        

The online "best music of 2008" and "best books of 2008" lists have been updated. see also: the Fimoculous aggregation of 2008 year-end lists of all types Creative Loafing interviews Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning. How...

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I Will Sing When You're All Dead [Profiles]

themorningnews.org
Nov 19, 2008
        

Professional opera singer, mountain climber, race car driver, and Vladimir Nabokov’s best translator and collaborator, Dmitri Nabokov has led an impassioned life. Although Vladimir, his father, was famously Russian, Vera...

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