From Maxim Shreyer on Newman and Nabokov's seventieth birthday:
"Newman published four books of fiction: New Axis (1966), The Promisekeeper: A Tephramancy (1971), three short novels in the volume There Must Be More Than Death (1976), and White Jazz (1984). His best-known book, however, was The Post-Modern Aura (1985), which divided contemporary novelists into “formalists” and “realists” and lamented the failure of literary fiction to compete in the contemporary cultural marketplace. You can get a sense of Newman’s style (and sense of humor) in this review he wrote for the New York Times in 1988.His chief distinction was his role in the creation of TriQuarterly.  One memorable issue that he edited (together with Alfred Appel) was a festschrift for Vladimir Nabokov on the occasion of Nabokov’s 70th birthday in 1970.  Among the contributors were Robert Alter, George Steiner, Simon Karlinksy, the Proffers, Stanley Elkin, Anthony Burgess, John Updike, Alfred Kazin, John Barth, and many others, including Newman himself.  (Newman recounts carrying a rolled-up copy of Pale Fire in his pocket through Army basic training.) You might enjoy Nabokov’s written response to this issue, which includes some kind words for Newman’s contribution.  (Other contributors, like Steiner, weren’t quite as lucky.) TriQuarterly had been knocking around Northwestern for years as a student and faculty publication before Newman took the helm.  But in Newman’s time it became one of the truly great literary journals of the 20th Century.  I just thought it made sense to mark his passing. "A small Alpine form Tuesday, August 31st, 2010  From The World of Nabokov’s Stories (1999), by Maxim D. Shrayer:

 

Other references to Nabokov's 70th birthday celebrations: ...In October, 1971, Kurt Hoffman visited me in Montreux to film an interview for the ... given me on my seventieth birthday by my German publisher Heinrich *... www.kulichki.com/moshkow/NABOKOW/Inter19.txt -

Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel  Galya Diment - 1997 - Biography & Autobiography - 202 páginas
In addition to making Nabokov laugh by imitating Szeftel's way of speaking, ... issue devoted to Nabokov and occasioned by Nabokov's seventieth birthday ...
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