The letters span the romance between Nabokov and Vera Slonim, later Vera Nabokov, from their meeting in Berlin in 1923, up until just before the author’s death in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977. Nabokov devoted most of his published work to his wife, who was also his editor and translator, and the couple rarely separated for any length of time. Nevertheless, their only son discovered more than 300 letters in his mother’s archive. She had destroyed her letters to her husband.
A selection of the letters appeared last week, in their original Russian, in the Russian magazine Snob. They are to be published in English next year.
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Vladimir Nabokov's unpublished love letters are released: Though he and his wife, Vera, were rarely apart, he wrote to her for more than 50 years
It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming. ~ The Secret Life of Bees
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Dead Presidents: Favorite Presidential Quotes
I’ve been asked to post the answer to this question from earlier in a way so that people can reblog it, so here it is.
I’ve been meaning to start a new series on Dead Presidents much like my “Random Facts of the Day” and “Presidents Talk About Presidents” series. I think it will be…
Because of their track record of killing Americans, I can’t support the construction of a Ground Zero McDonald’s.
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As much as I hate to just hand out free advertising (especially to Google), this video makes my head want to explode.
Leave it to The Valley for a great Q&A with producers of first DCW music video
After the release of the much-anticipated new video for “Stewardess” by The Daredevil Christopher Wright (which you can see on our news page here) we got in contact with SoFilms, the French company behind the cut. Despite the festivities of Bastille Day we received a prompt response from Franck, one of the members of the SoFilms team.
Here’s a question and answer we did with Franck from SoFilms:
How did you first connect with The Daredevil Christopher Wright? What made you want to do their video?
We received their record a few months ago, and we immediately loved it. We loved both the songs and the artwork of the CD. We had to search for pieces of information about the band and we’d been told that they were from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. We sent an email to Kyle [Frenette, of Amble Down Records], their manager, in order to introduce ourselves and our work. We received a response from Benjamin, the guy who runs their French record company (Almost Musique) and we talked about doing a music video. The band was happy with the idea so we came to Amery, Wisconsin, to meet them and shoot the video.
