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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov stories: 5 news summaries

 It's a Busy Fall for Books 

Dave Eggers, Philip Roth, Jon Krakauer have new titles out

Sep 4, 09 1:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hoping to salvage a miserable year, publishers are flooding the fall season with more hot tickets than normal. Some samples, from the Wall Street Journal:
  • Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, Sept. 1: The next in a series from the Da Vinci Code writer.
  • Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist,
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Jonathan Lethem • Pat Tillman • publishing • Jonathan Safran Foer • Dave Eggers • Vladimir Nabokov • Dan Brown • The Lost Symbol • books • Jon Krakauer • Maurice Sendak

(Newser) - The literary event of the year will be sandwiched between nudes in the pages of Playboy this fall, the Independent reports. The magazine won the rights to publish Vladimir Nabokov's final novella—which he ordered to be destroyed after his death—after its literary editor went to great lengths to... More »

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literature • novel • Playboy • Vladimir Nabokov

(Newser) - The unfinished manuscript that Lolita novelist Vladimir Nabokov ordered destroyed after his death will hit bookstores in November, The Bookseller reports. Penguin Classics, which acquired The Original of Laura from Nabokov's son Dimitri in a six-figure deal, will reproduce the index cards on which Laura was written alongside transcriptions of... More »

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publishing • Vladimir Nabokov • Dmitri Nabokov • Penguin

OPINION

Nabokov's Ghost: Make Buck off Laura

Son's imagined convo with dead dad might've saved final manuscript

Feb 29, 08 7:59 PM CST
(Newser) - Dmitri Nabokov's decision not to destroy his famed father's unfinished manuscript followed an imagined conversation with Vladimir's ghost, writes Ron Rosenbaum for Slate. Rosenbaum, who sleuthed his way through the "to burn or not to burn" debate, was previously told by Dmitri—who hinted at the book's genius before... More »

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Russia • Tom Stoppard • fiction • literature • book reviews • book • Lolita • Vladimir Nabokov • John Banville • preservation • deathbed • Dmitri Nabokov • Brian Boyd • The Original of Laura • Nabokov Online • Zembla • The Nabokovian

Nabokov's Last Work: Burn It?

Writers debate last request of Russian-American novelist

Feb 14, 08 10:43 AM CST
(Newser) - His works include Lolita and Pale Fire, but Vladimir Nabokov's greatest masterpiece might be an unfinished manuscript languishing in a Swiss safe deposit box. Nabokov demanded that The Original of Laura be burned after his death, but his heir has vacillated. Now that Dmitri Nabokov is hinting he might go... More »

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Tom Stoppard • literature • Vladimir Nabokov • John Banville

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