New Titles Out Next Week

from Shelf-Awareness.com Attainment: New Books Out Next Week Selected new titles appearing next Tuesday, July 1: Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World by David Maraniss (S&S, $26.95, 9781416534075/1416534075) examines a politically eventful yet often...

NATASHA by Vladimir Nabokov (Fiction from The New Yorker)

from The New Yorker NATASHA by Vladimir Nabokov   In the stairs Natasha ran into her neighbor from across the hall, Baron Wolfe. He was somewhat laboriously ascending the bare wooden steps, caressing the bannister with his hand and whistling softly through his teeth....

Nabokov At Last To Live

from the New York Observer Wylie Agency Adds Nabokov Estate To Its Client List BY LEON NEYFAKH Getty Images Less than a month after Dmitri Nabokov announced, following years of indecision, that he would publish his late father Vladimir’s unfinished final novel, The...

BRIGHT SHINY MORNING Contest Winners Announced

Thanks to all who answered the riddle for the contest to win a signed copy of BRIGHT SHINY MORNING. Since many entries were quite creative and fun to read, we decided not only to pick a randomly drawn winner, but also to reward the most creative response. Thus and...

In Penance To The Verse

from the AP via CNN.com Frost house vandals learn about poetic justice Poet Robert Frost’s summer home trashed during teen’s beer party 28 young people charged, most with trespassing More than $10,000 in damage was done to the house Teens learn about...