More on Nabokov’s papers
Thirteen microfilm reels of Nabokov’s now-public papers at the Library of Congress include notes on Lolita.
Thirteen microfilm reels of Nabokov’s now-public papers at the Library of Congress include notes on Lolita.
Monica Ali surveys hotels in literature, is profiled, and receives mixed reviews from Mark Sarvas and Nina Lakhani.
“[I]t all began with voice.” Julian Barnes pens introduction to forthcoming The Best of Frank O’Connor. (Via.)
Eudora Welty’s family declines to grant permission for a Mississippi women’s university to take her name. (Thanks, Eric.)
Today Granta posts my exchange with Alexander Chee about Jean Rhys’ and Ford Maddox Ford’s affair and the vengeful novels they wrote afterward. The level of acrimony packed into Quartet and When the Wicked Man is comparable to that of the Philip Roth-Claire Bloom book-off, if the Bloom character in I Married a Communist had not only been cast as . . .