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Tag: Vladimir Nabokov

Literary Foreplay: How the Pros Get You in the Mood!

Posted on March 3, 2022March 3, 2022 by Michael Kahn
While out in Phoenix last week I had the pleasure of spending a delightful afternoon with two of my book publishing heroes: Barbara Peters and Rob Rosenwald, the founders of Poison Pen Press.  While sipping Rob’s amazing limoncello, which he creates with fruit from the lemon tree in their backyard, our conversation drifted, as you…
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The 10 Best Lines in Literature: Let the Debate Begin

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Michael Kahn
The editors of The American Scholar–the quarterly publication of the Phi Beta Kappa Society–have published a piece on their website featuring their ten favorite sentences from fiction and nonfiction. Several were familiar, including one each from The Great Gatsby, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A Farewell to Arms, and Pride and Prejudice. My favorite of…
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Mystery #7 for Literary Snobs: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Michael Kahn
Conrad Brenner, writing in The New Republic, describes this book as “the most perverse novel you are ever likely to encounter.” And John Updike wrote, “Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically” If that doesn’t whet your appetite, then go back to your annotated Finnegans Wake and leave us…
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