Foreign publishers for The Secret History; more grim news out of St. Petersburg
On the “exciting news” front, The Secret History is now slated for publication in Russia and Poland. Russian house Sindbad Publishers Limited and Polish publisher Muza will be translating and printing the book in their respective countries. I’m particularly grateful that publishers in places so profoundly bound up with Holocaust and Gulag tragedy are interested in Nabokov’s […]
First-edition Nabokov poems up for sale
Before he wrote Lolita, before he came to America, before he met his wife Véra, Vladimir Nabokov was first and foremost a poet. And now the poetic at heart with four-figure pocket change might just be able to acquire a first edition of Gornii put (The Empyrean Path), a collection of Nabokov’s early poetry published […]
Nabokov Museum in St. Petersburg attacked by vandals
Several news outlets are reporting that a group calling itself the “St. Petersburg Cossacks” may be responsible for vandalism that broke a window of the Nabokov Museum in St. Petersburg. A note inside a bottle found in the museum warned the staff of “God’s wrath.” Some conservative Russians see Lolita as propaganda for pedophilia and […]
Appearing here in the New Year
This week we’re rolling out several new pages on the site (the other part of “we” being the design superpowers of Mackenzie McCluer). You’ll see posts running on this home page, with everything from basic Nabokov background information to guest pieces and new historical tidbits about the man and his century. I’m classifying the posts […]
