{"id":1797,"date":"2009-07-16T11:43:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T18:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/07\/lockdown-on-nabokov-by-knopf\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T18:43:12","slug":"lockdown-on-nabokov-by-knopf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/16\/lockdown-on-nabokov-by-knopf\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown On Nabokov by Knopf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/media\/if-you-want-read-nabokovs-laura-early-youll-have-make-house-call-knopf\" target=\"_blank\">from The Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/media\/if-you-want-read-nabokovs-laura-early-youll-have-make-house-call-knopf\" style=\"color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\">If You Want to Read Nabokov&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Laura<\/em>\u00a0Early, You&#8217;ll Have to Make a House Call to Knopf<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/author\/leon-neyfakh\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #2843b5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\" alt=\"Home page of Leon Neyfakh\">Leon Neyfakh<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/files\/article\/nabokov.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"170\" width=\"247\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" alt=\"from Getty Images\" \/>On Friday afternoon we ran through\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/media\/ladies-and-germs-your-summer-09-status-galleys\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #2843b5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\">some of the most exciting galleys<\/a>\u00a0hitting the streets this summer. One we didn\u2019t include was\u00a0<em>The Original of Laura<\/em>, the final, unfinished novella from the late Vladimir Nabokov, which Knopf will be publishing on November 17. The reason\u00a0<em>Laura<\/em>\u00a0didn\u2019t make it on our list was that we couldn\u2019t find anyone who had actually seen a galley of it. Today, Knopf\u2019s executive director of publicity, Paul Bogaards, provided an explanation via email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are not available (and will not be available),\u201d Mr. Bogaards said in his note. \u201cWe have instead printed two sets of page proofs and are inviting media colleagues to preview them at our offices. They are not leaving the building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/media\/if-you-want-read-nabokovs-laura-early-youll-have-make-house-call-knopf\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full piece at The Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Observer If You Want to Read Nabokov&#8217;s\u00a0Laura\u00a0Early, You&#8217;ll Have to Make a House Call to Knopf By\u00a0Leon Neyfakh On Friday afternoon we ran through\u00a0some of the most exciting galleys\u00a0hitting the streets this summer. One we didn\u2019t include was\u00a0The Original of Laura, the final, unfinished novella from the late Vladimir Nabokov, which Knopf will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}