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Trying to recover a few digitalized short-stories by V.Nabokov, I found a
batch of interesting old news related to the NYT and The New Yorker:
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/n/vladimir_nabok
ov/index.html>
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/n/vladimir_naboko
v/index.html
a small sample:
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<http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E0CE3D61E39E334BC4D53DFB16
6838C669EDE> uzzlemaker or Titan?; With the Stamp of Genius, Nabokov's Rich
Tapestry Refines His Private Experience
By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT
"I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better balanced mad mind than
mine," Vladimir Nabokov said of himself with typical perverse-elegance. But
other opinions varied. To some he seemed decadent: They would say of his
writing what...
July 4, 1977, Tuesday
<http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9804E3DF173AE73ABC4950DFB66
7838A669EDE> Understanding Vladimir Nabokov --; A Red Autumn Leaf Is a Red
Autumn Leaf, Not a Deflowered Nymphet Understanding Nabokov
By ALAN LEVYMONTREUX, Switzerland
IN the
glasshttp://web-static.nypl.org/exhibitions/nabokov/newyorker.htmed-in
greenhouse that lobbies for the Edwardian rococo Palace Hotel, a dozen
Trumanesque tourists and their plum-pudding ladies are worrying one another
about the weather -- asking anxiously whether it will hold for their
air-conditioned...
http://web-static.nypl.org/exhibitions/nabokov/newyorker.htm
Nabokov's first contribution to The New Yorker was "Literary Dinner," a poem
that appeared on April 11, 1942. It was followed in June by a poem, "The
Refrigerator Awakes," composed over the 1941 Thanksgiving holiday, spent at
the Wellfleet home of Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy. Over the next few
decades, the magazine would prove Nabokov's most reliable source of income,
as well as a high-profile forum through which he achieved most of his
pre-Lolita popularity. Katharine White became his editor and contact at the
magazine. Soon thereafter, she became a champion of his work - though not an
unconditional one - and a good friend. In 1944, when Wilson contacted her
about Nabokov's financial straits, she secured for him a $500 advance
against future contributions, and won for the magazine a first-reading
agreement that remained in effect until his death[ ] In 1963 and 1964, the
magazine agreed to print several of his Russian stories in translation,
excerpts from The Gift, and The Defense in its entirety over the course of
two issues - the first such occurrence in the history of that magazine - for
an unheard-of $10,400.
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
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
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/
batch of interesting old news related to the NYT and The New Yorker:
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/n/vladimir_nabok
ov/index.html>
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/n/vladimir_naboko
v/index.html
a small sample:
P
<http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E0CE3D61E39E334BC4D53DFB16
6838C669EDE> uzzlemaker or Titan?; With the Stamp of Genius, Nabokov's Rich
Tapestry Refines His Private Experience
By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT
"I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better balanced mad mind than
mine," Vladimir Nabokov said of himself with typical perverse-elegance. But
other opinions varied. To some he seemed decadent: They would say of his
writing what...
July 4, 1977, Tuesday
<http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9804E3DF173AE73ABC4950DFB66
7838A669EDE> Understanding Vladimir Nabokov --; A Red Autumn Leaf Is a Red
Autumn Leaf, Not a Deflowered Nymphet Understanding Nabokov
By ALAN LEVYMONTREUX, Switzerland
IN the
glasshttp://web-static.nypl.org/exhibitions/nabokov/newyorker.htmed-in
greenhouse that lobbies for the Edwardian rococo Palace Hotel, a dozen
Trumanesque tourists and their plum-pudding ladies are worrying one another
about the weather -- asking anxiously whether it will hold for their
air-conditioned...
http://web-static.nypl.org/exhibitions/nabokov/newyorker.htm
Nabokov's first contribution to The New Yorker was "Literary Dinner," a poem
that appeared on April 11, 1942. It was followed in June by a poem, "The
Refrigerator Awakes," composed over the 1941 Thanksgiving holiday, spent at
the Wellfleet home of Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy. Over the next few
decades, the magazine would prove Nabokov's most reliable source of income,
as well as a high-profile forum through which he achieved most of his
pre-Lolita popularity. Katharine White became his editor and contact at the
magazine. Soon thereafter, she became a champion of his work - though not an
unconditional one - and a good friend. In 1944, when Wilson contacted her
about Nabokov's financial straits, she secured for him a $500 advance
against future contributions, and won for the magazine a first-reading
agreement that remained in effect until his death[ ] In 1963 and 1964, the
magazine agreed to print several of his Russian stories in translation,
excerpts from The Gift, and The Defense in its entirety over the course of
two issues - the first such occurrence in the history of that magazine - for
an unheard-of $10,400.
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
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
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/