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The Coming Nabokov

By Scott Esposito ⋅ March 29, 2010 ⋅ 4 comments

Nabokov’s masterful biographer, Brian Boyd, was one of the few people to read The Original of Laura long before it was published last year. Here he promises thousands of pages of more Nabakov to come. In what do these pages consist?

Mass-market paperback postmodernism

By Scott Bryan Wilson ⋅ March 10, 2010 ⋅ 18 comments

or, Artifacts from a World I Do Not Recognize
I love coming across mass market editions of books by writers whom you wouldn’t normally associate with that format (at least for those of us who were born in the seventies or later). Below are a few I’ve come across in used book stores. I always wonder: [...]

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