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...NABOKOV: HIS LIFE IN ART by Andrew Field. 397 pages. Little, Brown...
Playboy was spicy but hardly shocking ?long-forgotten efforts by John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, Somerset Maugham, Robert Ruark. Playboy also dipped into the ribald classics; despite constant mining, the Boccaccio and De Maupassant vein is still running strong. In the early days, name writers shunned Playboy. Today, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, Herbert Gold, Ray Bradbury and Ken Purdy regularly provide respectable material. This upgrading of fiction is largely due to Auguste Comte Spectorsky,* 56, who was hired from NBC by Hefner to bring some New York know-how and sophistication (a favorite Playboy word) to the magazine...
SPEAK, MEMORY, by Vladimir Nabokov. Robbed of his Russian youth by the Revolution, Novelist Nabokov has tirelessly caressed his memories of it in this autobiography, now published in its final form- a hymn to childhood...
SPEAK, MEMORY, by Vladimir Nabokov. Robbed of his Russian youth by the revolution, Novelist Nabokov has tirelessly caressed his memories of it in this autobiography, now published in its final form -a hymn to childhood...
...setting exclusively for the young Nabokov, "lent an ember to my bicycle bell." Ben, Dan, Sam and Ned, the "wan-faced, big-limbed, silent nitwits" encountered in the English grammars that he mastered before Russian, "now drift with a slow-motioned slouch across the remotest backdrop of my memory." On the Nord-Express, "I saw a city, with its toylike trams, linden trees and brick walls, enter the compartment, hobnob with the mirrors, and fill to the brim the windows on the corridor side." A telephone number rises from the welter of years: "What would happen...