Is Zadie Smith's 2005 lecture on "Pnin" available anywhere in print (or, 
even better, online)? The list archives yield this,

http://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0607&L=NABOKV-L&P=R1565&I=-3

which contains a lot of judgment but no summary of what was actually said. 
The audience member's question (mentioned in the post) makes me very 
curious: what WAS Smith's thesis that the questioner "couldn't have 
disagreed with more" if Smith'd said VN was a Spanish pilot?

Mike Donohue

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