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VN bibliography: volume on James Laughlin (New Directions
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The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin
Edited by Barbara Epler and Daniel Javitch
New Directions, 288 pp., illustrated, $45
"Rebel with a Press"
[book review by Richard Eder, Dec. 10, 2006, Boston Globe]
[ ... ] The funniest entry is Vladimir Nabokov's account of discussing
his Gogol book with Laughlin. The publisher kept pressing for plot
details; Nabokov treats each suggestion as if it were an exotic
butterfly he was about to net. Laughlin suggests a list of Gogol works;
Nabokov pretends to hear "bibliography" and notes dozens of Russian
sources.
"The trouble is that if I start listing these works, I am sure to try to
allay my boredom by inserting here and there fictitious titles and
imaginary authors." Well, how about a picture? "I have been thinking of
that myself. Yes -- let us have a picture of Gogol's nose . . . a big
solitary sharp nose -- neatly outlined in ink like the enlarged figure
of some important part of a curious zoological specimen." [ ... ]
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2006/12/10/rebel_with_a_press/
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"Give 'em the Dickens"
[review by Mary Ann Grossman of books for Christmas gift-giving from the
Twin Cities Pioneer Press, Dec. 10, 2006]
[ ... ] Readers who long for more contemporary fare will find it in
"The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories" edited by Alberto Manguel (Ecco,
$19.95). Contributors include Paul Auster, Ann Beattie, John Cheever,
Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov and William Trevor.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/entertainment/16188169.htm
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
SES]
The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin
Edited by Barbara Epler and Daniel Javitch
New Directions, 288 pp., illustrated, $45
"Rebel with a Press"
[book review by Richard Eder, Dec. 10, 2006, Boston Globe]
[ ... ] The funniest entry is Vladimir Nabokov's account of discussing
his Gogol book with Laughlin. The publisher kept pressing for plot
details; Nabokov treats each suggestion as if it were an exotic
butterfly he was about to net. Laughlin suggests a list of Gogol works;
Nabokov pretends to hear "bibliography" and notes dozens of Russian
sources.
"The trouble is that if I start listing these works, I am sure to try to
allay my boredom by inserting here and there fictitious titles and
imaginary authors." Well, how about a picture? "I have been thinking of
that myself. Yes -- let us have a picture of Gogol's nose . . . a big
solitary sharp nose -- neatly outlined in ink like the enlarged figure
of some important part of a curious zoological specimen." [ ... ]
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2006/12/10/rebel_with_a_press/
---------------------------
"Give 'em the Dickens"
[review by Mary Ann Grossman of books for Christmas gift-giving from the
Twin Cities Pioneer Press, Dec. 10, 2006]
[ ... ] Readers who long for more contemporary fare will find it in
"The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories" edited by Alberto Manguel (Ecco,
$19.95). Contributors include Paul Auster, Ann Beattie, John Cheever,
Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov and William Trevor.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/entertainment/16188169.htm
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm