The Legacy of Lolita

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Jenny Offill's work Weather: A Novel encapsulates the sense of world-ending doom so many of us grapple with, and in a variety of ways. Anney and Samantha navigate themes and emotions around the world dying while life goes on.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Who is Lolita? The Nabokov literary classic has sparked infinite discussion in the 65 years since its release, but the cultural memory the book has left behind lives more in romance and fashion aesthetics than a cautionary tale about a deceptive predator and his young prey. Jamie ...  Show more

At just 17 years old, Alisson Wood began a dangerous entanglement with a creative writing teacher at her school, who gifted her a copy of Nabokov’s Lolita. To hear “Mr. North” tell it, Lolita is the ultimate love story—a narrative the young Alisson bought int ...

Author Dani Shapiro reveals what it was like to, by chance, discover a shocking secret about herself, and what this secret taught her about identity, family, and new beginnings.

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