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Manifesto, theory, rant: Yumna Kassab’s ‘post-novels’ have a bit of everything
28 Mar 2025 00:18 GMT
… new book, The Theory of Everything, is not a typical novel. … narrative expectations. Famous anti-novels include James Joyce’s … Shandy (1759-67), and Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire (1962), … into five sections or “mini-novels”, titled Game, Gender, Modern …
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Felice Picano: Pioneering author & publisher leaves a literary legacy
18 Mar 2025 12:47 GMT
Prolific author, publisher and editor Felice Picano … happened.
Felice Picano with author Wayne Hoffman at the 2012 … , who began as a novelist Vladimir Nabokov could praise, and has continued … a book published, or how he inspired them to complete a novel. He …
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Should AI Write Fiction? OpenAI Did & an Author Called it ‘Pastiche Garbage’
17 Mar 2025 19:47 GMT
… used by Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov in his 1957 novel Pnin.
Authors react … criticism. Award-winning British author Jeanette Winterson published an op-ed in … an email, Pulitzer Prize nominated author Dave Eggers told The San …
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Erotica and exploitation, a book review of ‘Lolita’
10 Mar 2025 22:46 GMT
… by Vladimir Nabokov is the among the first stacked in the “banned book … , is the protagonist of the novel who tells the story of … schemes to get closer. The novel turns quickly with Humbert going … for the readers of this novel. In fact, walls are consistently …
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Book Club Picks for February 2025
12 Feb 2025 14:51 GMT
… : “In Wilkerson’s incohesive sophomore novel, the daughter of a prominent … .” Read more.
Jewish Book Council Book Club (fiction)
The book: The Last Dekrepitzer … Stacks Book Club
The book: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Subtle Asian Book Club
The book: Everything …
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11 Book Club Picks for February 2025
11 Feb 2025 19:43 GMT
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
About the book cub: Hosted by Traci Thomas … podcast that chats all about books, and there’s a … monthly book club. The book chosen for the … book: “We’re reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. This controversial and iconic novel …
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Food packaging style health warnings should be put on books written by AI, says Scotland's makar
10 Feb 2025 13:12 GMT
… warnings should be put on books written by artificial intelligence, Scotland … concerns” over the issues the publishing industry was facing over the … this is one per cent Vladimir Nabokov, two per cent Gertrude Stein … poems, short stories and novels?"
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‘Beggar’s Bedlam’: Nabarun Bhattacharya’s defiant, magic realist novel about class clashes in Bengal
09 Feb 2025 13:07 GMT
… . A letter appealing peace is published in newspapers, signed by everyone … Mill, Carl Gustav Jung, and Vladimir Nabokov, but if you were to … liberally with intertextual references, the novel is a chronicle of its … Bengali by Rijula Das, Seagull Books.
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The extreme measures writers take for a killer book blurb
05 Feb 2025 18:35 GMT
Vladimir Nabokov would have killed … book world. They can make or break a literary friendship. When Vladimir Nabokov … reviewing any of my novels.”
American author Gore Vidal, pictured … a blurb. When Hitchens published his book Unacknowledged Legislation in 2000 …
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Earth Matters: Do plants know math? Three Valley plants share a surprising secret
28 Mar 2025 15:20 GMT
… answer, by the way). As Vladimir Nabokov wrote, “when I went out … the coauthors of my latest book, “Do Plants Know Math?” It … is explained by my co-author, Golé, who had a eureka … you to dive into our book, where you will discover a …