You Might Never Find Your Way Back: Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman
There are other odd, improbable, tenuous connections, as if Hangsaman had a secret way of speaking to (or through) other artifacts beyond its time.
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Vladimir Nabokov and Lionel Trilling Discuss Lolita
“I think it’s shocking. I’m glad it’s shocking.” (via The New Republic) Part two is here.
...moreThe Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
I was out last week on vacation, but I’m back. And there’s a lot to catch up on. Here goes … In Turkey, you can go to jail for using the letters Q, W and X. (via) Even Bill and Ted might have gone to this library. The anthology Love is a Four Letter Word […]
...moreKubrick’s 1961 Lolita is the First 70s Movie
The other day I read a rambling but entertaining essay over on Bright Lights Film Journal, called All Tomorrow’s Playground Narratives, which analyzed Kubrick’s Lolita in terms of — well, approximately anything that occurred to the guy, it would seem. But it contained some memorable quotes, like “Lolita sits at the tape mark on a […]
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