Sep 16
jessamyn west acheived an A-, very impressive. nabokov’s stylistic mastery was rivaled in magnitude only by his sometime ability to be the world’s biggest ass.
hud:
55 Short Stories from The New Yorker. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1949]. Nabokov’s copy, with his holograph annotations. Berg Collection (via NYPL).
This is classic Nabokov. No one else could possibly compare…to himself.