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Inklings also suffers from some lofty competition. Pale Fire remains the final, funniest fictional word on the author-critic tug-of-war. Nabokov and very few others have managed to do what Wolff does not: make bookish people interesting in books...
...Schwartz's achievement limited to verse. The title work was a brilliant short story whose narrator witnessed the past courtship of his mother and father, interrupting with cries of "Don't do it! It's not too late ..." No less a judge than Vladimir Nabokov placed this tale -written when Schwartz was only 21 -among his "half a dozen favorites in modern literature...
...argue that the Colorpedia looks and reads like three decades' worth of Sunday supplements. Indeed, the encyclopedia's breathless attention to contemporary figures can lead to endless second-guessing. Why is Joe Namath given ten lines of biography, while only seven are accorded to the late Vladimir Nabokov? Why Walter Cronkite but not David Brinkley? If Capote rates an entry, why not Vidal? Such quibbles will depend on whose Gore is being axed. Still, the book changes browsers into learners. Whatever its flaws, the R.H.E. is a welcome invitation not only to the mind...
...brought a fine literary taste and a liberal pay rate for short stories to the publication, helping transform it from an unassuming satirical weekly into a first-run showcase for many of America's leading authors. Among them: John Cheever, John O'Hara, John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov and Mary McCarthy. She married a New Yorker writer-though he turned out to be a master of nonfiction-named E.B. White...
...Nabokov crossed too many borders to have been a winner in the geopolitics of the Nobel Prize. Yet he gave a prize greater than any he might have received: his challenging, intricate fiction, which miraculously demonstrates that art is not a mirror held up to na ture, but rather a prism that refracts blinding reality into rainbows of wisdom and feeling...