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First Reported May 17 2012 - Updated May 17 2012 - 1 Documents

VIVIAN DARKBLOOM @ CHURCH

We’ve written before about Vivian Darkbloom— waxing both philosophic on their delicate-yet-dark indie rocking and philosophomoric about their appropriation of the Lolita character/“Vladimir Nabokov” anagram. Boom. Just did it again. Their show at Church ... [ Published May 17 2012 by Weekly Dig ]

Entities: Vladimir Nabokov, Golden Retriever, paedophilia

First Reported May 14 2012 - Updated May 14 2012 - 1 Documents

Gary Kemp

How we made: Gary Kemp and Steve Norman on True

'I still get berated for the line "Take your seaside arms", but it's from Nabokov's Lolita'Gary Kemp, songwriter/guitaristI wrote the song at my parents' house, where I was still living at the time. As a working-class boy, I wouldn't think of moving out ... [ Published May 14 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Steve Norman, Gary Kemp, Vladimir Nabokov, Clare Grogan, Grover Washington, Jr.

First Reported May 10 2012 - Updated May 10 2012 - 2 Documents

The 6th Floor Blog: Books We Let Others Think We've Read

Earlier this week, an English Web site published a list of the ?top books that Brits lie about reading.? It inspired us to come forward with our own list of books we?ve been less than truthful about having read. Here are some voices from our staff (names ... [ Published May 10 2012 by New York Times ]

Entities: Leo Tolstoy, Pierre Bayard, John Kennedy Toole, Great Neck (United States)

First Reported May 07 2012 - Updated May 07 2012 - 1 Documents

Kenneth Lonergan

Guset Picks: Amy Herzog

Playwright Amy Herzog (along with actors and Gabriel Ebert) was on the Lopate Show. She also told us what she's been listening to recently. What have you read or seen over the past year (book, play, film, etc...) that moved or surprised you? $ $ $ $ $ ... [ Published May 07 2012 by WNYC ]

Entities: Mary Karr, Kenneth Lonergan, Vladimir Nabokov

First Reported May 04 2012 - Updated May 04 2012 - 1 Documents

Editorial / Fine literature and videogames: Why not?

thatvideogameblog: "I have two passions in life: videogames and fine literature. For years now, I’ve waited for a good meeting point for these two art forms, with no luck. To me, it seems like classic literature is a ripe crop ready for the videogame ... [ Published May 04 2012 by N4G.com ]

Entities: Video Games, Vladimir Nabokov, Nintendo Wii

First Reported May 04 2012 - Updated May 04 2012 - 1 Documents

Eric Kandel

What We?re Reading: Vasily Grossman, Eric Kandel, Longform.org, and More

Notes from the New Yorker staff on their literary engagements of the week.In a way I’m glad I didn’t read "A Writer at War," drawn from Vasily Grossman’s notebooks and newspaper articles from 1941 to 1945, when it was first published back in 2005. It ... [ Published May 04 2012 by New Yorker ]

Entities: Vasily Grossman, Eric Kandel, Vladimir Nabokov, Robert Caro

First Reported May 03 2012 - Updated May 03 2012 - 1 Documents

Greatest novels for your library

All of us love to read a good book, only a select few have become the most popular and most read books in the world.Here you will discover some of the greatest pieces of literary work by highly talented authors.1. One Thousand and One Nights Anon A Persian ... [ Published May 03 2012 by Newzglobe.com ]

Entities: Leo Tolstoy, Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, Pawnbroker

First Reported Apr 29 2012 - Updated Apr 29 2012 - 1 Documents

Channel your inner novelist by tracing the footsteps of noted Upstate NY writers

Upstate New York offers trails for wine, cheese, hikers, bikers, snowmobilers and even spa-ers -- folks who seek massages, waxings and primpings. In simple terms, this region supports a bountiful trail mix.But what about books? The area has a great legacy ... [ Published Apr 29 2012 by Syracuse Online ]

Entities: Stephen Crane, Rod Serling, Watertown (Tennessee, United States)

First Reported Apr 23 2012 - Updated Apr 24 2012 - 1 Documents

World Book Day 2012 celebrates the work of translators

World Book DayWorld Book Day is celebrated annually on 23 April.The day was chosen as some of the world's greatest writers either were born or died on that day, including William Shakespeare, Cervantes and Vladimir Nabokov.These authors and many others ... [ Published Apr 23 2012 by United Nations Multimedia ]

Entities: Vladimir Nabokov, William Shakespeare

First Reported Apr 20 2012 - Updated Apr 20 2012 - 2 Documents

World Book and copyright day

April 23 marks the anniversary of the birth or death of a range of well-known writers, including Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Maurice Druon, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Haldor Kiljan Laxness, Manuel Mejía Vallejo, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and William ... [ Published Apr 20 2012 by The People Seychelles ]

Entities: Manuel Mejía Vallejo, Maurice Druon, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Josep Pla, Vladimir Nabokov

First Reported Apr 11 2012 - Updated Apr 11 2012 - 1 Documents

Culture Vulture (Apr. 11, 2012)

Even though the well-known novel Lolita, authored by the Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov, was originally published in English in 1955 in Paris, and 1958 in New York, it was just recently translated into Vietnamese. Since then it has become very ... [ Published Apr 11 2012 by Bao Moi.com ]

Entities: Vietnam, Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-Americans, Pornography

First Reported Apr 02 2012 - Updated Apr 02 2012 - 1 Documents

Star-Crossed: William Shakespeare and Vladimir Nabokov

April 2012 Kevin Frazier features Each issue the Star-Crossed column chooses two or more writers who were born during a particular month and talks about their work. April Birthdays: William Shakespeare born April 23, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, England ... [ Published Apr 02 2012 by Bookslut ]

Entities: William Shakespeare, Vladimir Nabokov, Berlin, Hals (Denmark), Russia

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VIVIAN DARKBLOOM @ CHURCH [ Published May 17 2012 by Weekly Dig ]
Any Human Heart: An affair to remember [ Published May 15 2012 by New Zealand Herald ]
How we made: Gary Kemp and Steve Norman on True [ Published May 14 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
The 6th Floor Blog: Books We Let Others Think W... [ Published May 10 2012 by New York Times ]
The Books We Lie About [ Published May 10 2012 by New York Times ]
Libraries ban ‘Fifty Shades’ for being too racy [ Published May 10 2012 by Hindustan Times ]
Guset Picks: Amy Herzog [ Published May 07 2012 by WNYC ]
Editorial / Fine literature and videogames: Why... [ Published May 04 2012 by N4G.com ]
What We?re Reading: Vasily Grossman, Eric Kande... [ Published May 04 2012 by New Yorker ]
Greatest novels for your library [ Published May 03 2012 by Newzglobe.com ]
South Africa: The New Threat to Freedom [ Published May 01 2012 by New York Review of Books ]
Channel your inner novelist by tracing the foot... [ Published Apr 29 2012 by Syracuse Online ]
Boyd Tonkin: James Joyce has escaped from the c... [ Published Apr 28 2012 by The Independent ]
A Titanic crewman told of orders for speed in 1... [ Published Apr 25 2012 by Lehigh Valley Express-Times ]
Seven minutes with John Cusack [ Published Apr 25 2012 by STLtoday.com ]
On annual World Book Day, UN stresses importanc... [ Published Apr 24 2012 by United Nations ]
World Book Day 2012 celebrates the work of tran... [ Published Apr 23 2012 by United Nations Multimedia ]
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5 ways to celebrate World Book and Copyright Day [ Published Apr 23 2012 by Al-Masry Al-Youm ]
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World Book and copyright day [ Published Apr 20 2012 by The People Seychelles ]
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Jorge Herralde Honoured With The London Book Fa... [ Published Apr 17 2012 by Booktrade - Book2Book ]
The indignation of imagination [ Published Apr 14 2012 by Express Buzz ]

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The son also writes: should offspring follow in... [ Published Feb 29 2012 by Culture ] Writers often make poor fathers, husbands too of course. (Same may be said of them as wives and mothers, I daresay.) There are, naturally, some exceptions. Vladimir Nabokov‘s marriage seems to have been rock-solid and blissfully happy, undisturbed by ...
10 of the Greatest Kisses in Literature [ Published Feb 13 2012 by Oh No They Didn't! ] It’s the season of romance, and you know what that means — you’d better start gearing up to give that special someone a stars-and-fireworks-worthy kiss come February 14th. So like any other book nerds, we can’t help but think about our favorite literary ...
Jaimie Etkin: 'Pretty Little Liars' Recap: Emil... [ Published Jan 31 2012 by TV Squad ] Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 2, Episode 18 of ABC Family's "Pretty Little Liars, entitled "A Kiss Before Lying." Our Hanna-less " Pretty Little Liars " are still keeping secrets from the foursome's only blonde and examining the ...
‘Pretty Little Liars,’ Season 2, Episode 18, ‘A... [ Published Jan 31 2012 by WSJ.com: Speakeasy ] ABC FamilyScene from “Pretty Little Liars” Big Plot Points to Remember: Kate’s here! And mean! Aria and Holden have a real-ish date when both of their plans are cancelled. Pam returns, and takes Emily and Maya out to dinner. Maya acts up, but apologizes ...
Kardashi-trash: best sentences/passages from th... [ Published Dec 10 2011 by Oh No They Didn't! ] I read (and I'm not ashamed to say, enjoyed) Kourtney, Kim and Khloé Kardashian's roman à clef, Dollhouse, for work. My review is here (the headline is, obviously, all my doing ) and it explains why I was seduced by its trashy charm (er, charmlessness). ...