The Idiot, on stage
A new ballet inspired by The Idiot is intended to reflect Dostoevsky’s many changing drafts of his novel of obsessive passion.
A new ballet inspired by The Idiot is intended to reflect Dostoevsky’s many changing drafts of his novel of obsessive passion.
Dmitri Nabokov, after years of public handwringing, will now publish The Original of Laura, the manuscript his father Vladimir ordered destroyed.
All her novels were out of print when Teddy Roosevelt’s granddaughter, the talented and scandalous writer Theodora Keogh, died in obscurity a couple months ago. Last week I discovered (and briefly mentioned) that several of them were revived as 80¢ e-books for Amazon’s Kindle. The Kindle itself, however, was sold out. (Also, it costs four hundred dollars.) In case . . .
Can a negative review kill a novel? Many say that was the fate of Joy Williams’ The Changeling, now rescued from oblivion after 30 years.
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