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Trilling and Nabokov
I'm not sure why this is suddenly getting noticed, but it's worth noticing. Lionel Trilling and Vladimir Nabokov discuss "Lolita":
Trilling: "I think that the book is shocking. I'm glad that it's shocking."
Evidently Nabokov did not let go of those notecards (on which he famously wrote his novels) even during interviews.
Part two is here.
Via James Wolcott.
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Joshua Rothman is a graduate student and Teaching Fellow in the Harvard English department, and an Instructor in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He teaches novels and political writing.
