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Nabokov's Blues reviews AND American Scientist mag's 100
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From: Kurt Johnson <belina@dellnet.com>
Two things-- Zoland Books' further comment re reviews of Nabokov's Blues and
a Note on
American Scientist magazine's recent feature re: 100 most important
books shaping science in the 20th Century
First-- Steve Hull at Zoland Books (the person who first suggested that
Nabokov's Blues be written) wrote this note in addition to Kurt Johnsons'
earlier report on reviews of Nabokov's Blues. I'll leave Hull's
Thanksgiving greeting in tact for all of you to share.
You might add: The Columbus (OH) Dispatch; American Scientist (Jan issue);
the Anniston (AL) Star; San Francisco Metropolitan magazine (12/3 issue).
They've all confirmed to me they are reviewing. I await others that are
tentative. In the meanwhile I'm off tomorrow, back Tues. the 30th. Have
Happy Holidays. --steve
Second-- a note from Kurt Johnson re American Scientist ("AS") magazine's
December issue. It may interest readers of NABOKV-L that this issue of has
a "list" of the 100 most important books shaping science for the Century.
There are several categories but in one, you'll find an entry pasted in
below, and then further note there was an entire section for "Novels", which
is also pasted in below [for details and entire list see the American
Scientist website]:
www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/bookshelf/century2
under "Field Guides"
John Steinbeck and E. F. Ricketts, Sea of Cortez (1941)
then
"Novels"
We could not close the book list of the most literate and populous of all
centuries without attending to what the art of fiction brings, both of tears
and laughter.
H. G. Wells wrote his book in the first decade of the century. The science
was truly prescient, and his portrayals both of the advertisers'
culture--still dominant--and of the life of a young scientist have hardly
been bettered. Rainbow is an utterly brilliant novel of WWII framed around
science, but its light is chillingly cold.
Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith (1925)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle (1963)
H. G. Wells, Tono Bungay (1908)
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
The entire list is an interesting excursion into the "shapers" of modern
science. You'll see many names you recognize-- Gould, Sagan, Wilson and
many more (from Darwin on...even Teilhard de Chardin...a nice gesture of
even-handedness!).
----- Original Message -----
From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>
To: <NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: Review of reviews of NABOKOV's BLUES by Kurt Johnson & Steve
Coates
> From: Suellen Stringer-Hye <StringerS@library.vanderbilt.edu>
>
> The "can" science typo was so apt I actually assumed, on my first cursory
> read through, that the typo was a missing question mark.
Two things-- Zoland Books' further comment re reviews of Nabokov's Blues and
a Note on
American Scientist magazine's recent feature re: 100 most important
books shaping science in the 20th Century
First-- Steve Hull at Zoland Books (the person who first suggested that
Nabokov's Blues be written) wrote this note in addition to Kurt Johnsons'
earlier report on reviews of Nabokov's Blues. I'll leave Hull's
Thanksgiving greeting in tact for all of you to share.
You might add: The Columbus (OH) Dispatch; American Scientist (Jan issue);
the Anniston (AL) Star; San Francisco Metropolitan magazine (12/3 issue).
They've all confirmed to me they are reviewing. I await others that are
tentative. In the meanwhile I'm off tomorrow, back Tues. the 30th. Have
Happy Holidays. --steve
Second-- a note from Kurt Johnson re American Scientist ("AS") magazine's
December issue. It may interest readers of NABOKV-L that this issue of has
a "list" of the 100 most important books shaping science for the Century.
There are several categories but in one, you'll find an entry pasted in
below, and then further note there was an entire section for "Novels", which
is also pasted in below [for details and entire list see the American
Scientist website]:
www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/bookshelf/century2
under "Field Guides"
John Steinbeck and E. F. Ricketts, Sea of Cortez (1941)
then
"Novels"
We could not close the book list of the most literate and populous of all
centuries without attending to what the art of fiction brings, both of tears
and laughter.
H. G. Wells wrote his book in the first decade of the century. The science
was truly prescient, and his portrayals both of the advertisers'
culture--still dominant--and of the life of a young scientist have hardly
been bettered. Rainbow is an utterly brilliant novel of WWII framed around
science, but its light is chillingly cold.
Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith (1925)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle (1963)
H. G. Wells, Tono Bungay (1908)
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
The entire list is an interesting excursion into the "shapers" of modern
science. You'll see many names you recognize-- Gould, Sagan, Wilson and
many more (from Darwin on...even Teilhard de Chardin...a nice gesture of
even-handedness!).
----- Original Message -----
From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>
To: <NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: Review of reviews of NABOKOV's BLUES by Kurt Johnson & Steve
Coates
> From: Suellen Stringer-Hye <StringerS@library.vanderbilt.edu>
>
> The "can" science typo was so apt I actually assumed, on my first cursory
> read through, that the typo was a missing question mark.