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  • Questions of Legacy: Talking with Adrienne Celt
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    Catherine Nichols

    Questions of Legacy: Talking with Adrienne Celt

    Adrienne Celt discusses her forthcoming novel, Invitation to a Bonfire, how she found its characters’ voices, and what it means to build a legacy.

  • Adam Keller

    Nabokov²

    If Jesse Eisenberg plays you as a meddler in the personal affairs of geniuses, how do you respond? If you’re David Lipsky, you double down. His extensive review of Letters to Vera, a collection of Vladimir Nabokov’s letters to his…

  • Guia Cortassa

    (Not Really) Pleased To Meet You

    The narrative of the encounter between James Joyce and Marcel Proust gets another tile added to its mosaic. Over at the London Review of Books blog, Ben Jackson reports on the legendary meeting as told by Vladimir Nabokov to his wife…

  • Licking Vladimir’s Stamps

    It may seem a little outdated to invoke Vera Nabokov’s name, but most writers seem to agree on the need for a “Vera”—a partner or friend, willing to edit and support. In the Atlantic this week, Koa Beck explores the legend of the do-it-all…