Vladimir Nabokov spent twenty years translating “the first and fundamental Russian novel,” Aleksandr Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. His battle with the text sparked an intellectual debate with his former friend, Edmund Wilson. The Paris Review has his notes. Pair with our own Lydia Kiesling’s thoughts on Lolita.
Nabokov’s Notes
Darcy the Ripper
As part of the Funny Women feature at The Rumpus, Melissa Darcey wonders: what would it be like if Lifetime made movies out of classic novels?
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Color in Poetry
Recommended reading: "What is Color in Poetry" by Dorothea Lasky for Poetry. It's a lengthy article but a thoughtful one, and, as a bonus, it includes some of Lasky's childhood poetry. Pair with our earlier post about reading teenage poetry to crowds and you've got a theme for the day.
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Mad Men Style
Follow Mad Men set decorator Amy Wells on a search for period furniture in Pasadena.
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Jack Ryan is Real
Jack Ryan really exists and even teaches at the U.S. Naval Academy. Vulture's Dan Solomon met the real Jack Ryan and discussed what it's like to have the same name as Tom Clancy's hero. No, he has never used the connection as a pick-up line. Pair with: Our in memoriam of Clancy.
Made-Up Awards
When Mark O'Connell asked why we care about literary awards, he probably didn't imagine the situation in China.
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#IndieAWP
Let Electric Literature be your guide through AWP 2013's indie-er events.
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What’s That Physics Book Doing in Tiger’s Car?
Now this would be a strange way for an obscure book to become an overnight bestseller. Among The Smoking Gun's photos of the Tiger Woods crash scene is a shot of a book called Get a Grip on Physics by John Gribbin lying amid the broken glass. Maybe brushing up on physics can help your golf game.