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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:00:20 -0400
From: "Sandy P. Klein" <spklein52@hotmail.com>
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Subject: The clubbable VN ...
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http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0537,wordsalad,67715,10.html[2] [3]
Word Salad
BY ED PARK
September 9th, 2005 4:59 PM
The clubbable VN
photo: Jerry Bauer
Azar Nafisi's _Reading Lolita in Tehran_ became a surprise hit in
2003, and the paperback edition has spent over a year on the _New
York Times_ bestseller list. It's a book club favorite that is itself
about a sort of book club: a group of women in mid-'90s Iran who met
to discuss forbidden books, including Nabokov's novel.
Now publishers want to capitalize on the formula. Just as the
celebration of the original _Lolita_'s 50th anniversary gets
underway, the following releases were spotted in the spring catalogs
of 10 imprints. Which ones will you read?
Reading Pale Fire in Waukegan
Reading King, Queen, Knave in Suburban Denver
Reading Invitation to a Beheading in Oslo
Reading Look at the Harlequins! in Beautiful Boca Raton
Reading The Real Life of Sebastian Knight in Guadalajara
Reading The Defense in Irvine
Reading Transparent Things in Ottawa
Reading The Nabokov-Wilson Letters off New South Wales
Reading Speak, Memory Just Outside Albany
Reading Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse, Vol. II, Commentary and
Index in Dar es Salaam
Links:
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[1] http://www.villagevoice.com/
[2] http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0537,wordsalad,67715,10.html
[3] http://www.villagevoice.com/books/books
----- End forwarded message -----
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:00:20 -0400
From: "Sandy P. Klein" <spklein52@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: SPKlein52@HotMail.com
Subject: The clubbable VN ...
To: SPKlein52@HotMail.com
http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0537,wordsalad,67715,10.html[2] [3]
Word Salad
BY ED PARK
September 9th, 2005 4:59 PM
The clubbable VN
photo: Jerry Bauer
Azar Nafisi's _Reading Lolita in Tehran_ became a surprise hit in
2003, and the paperback edition has spent over a year on the _New
York Times_ bestseller list. It's a book club favorite that is itself
about a sort of book club: a group of women in mid-'90s Iran who met
to discuss forbidden books, including Nabokov's novel.
Now publishers want to capitalize on the formula. Just as the
celebration of the original _Lolita_'s 50th anniversary gets
underway, the following releases were spotted in the spring catalogs
of 10 imprints. Which ones will you read?
Reading Pale Fire in Waukegan
Reading King, Queen, Knave in Suburban Denver
Reading Invitation to a Beheading in Oslo
Reading Look at the Harlequins! in Beautiful Boca Raton
Reading The Real Life of Sebastian Knight in Guadalajara
Reading The Defense in Irvine
Reading Transparent Things in Ottawa
Reading The Nabokov-Wilson Letters off New South Wales
Reading Speak, Memory Just Outside Albany
Reading Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse, Vol. II, Commentary and
Index in Dar es Salaam
Links:
------
[1] http://www.villagevoice.com/
[2] http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0537,wordsalad,67715,10.html
[3] http://www.villagevoice.com/books/books
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