Friday reading at Harvard Book Store
If you live in the greater Boston area, be sure to come to Harvard Book Store in Cambridge this Friday at 7:00 pm, when I’ll be reading from (and signing copies of) The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov.
I’m excited to return to Cambridge, where I was living when I first began my research—and where Nabokov spent several years of his life. During the 1940s Nabokov worked at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. Charged with reorganizing the museum’s butterfly collection, he spent many hours at the museum first as a volunteer and then under contract on a part-time basis (while also lecturing at Wellesley College). He moved to upstate New York in 1948 to become a professor at Cornell, but returned to Cambridge for one semester in 1953 to teach literature at Harvard.
Harvard Book Store is just blocks from the museum—and even closer to Nabokov’s lodgings on Cambridge Street, where he lived briefly during his return to campus. The Friday reading is free and open to the public. I hope to see you there!
