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#5: Sara Gran and Greg Pak

In this episode, Sara Gran recommends Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov and Greg Pak recommends The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. This episode of Recommended is sponsored by Kill the Queen by Jennifer Estep and The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy …

Edmund White on Nabokov

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Thomas Meaney on death (and what to do with the remains) in the West; Professor Amy Knight on how Putin keeps getting away with murder; Edmund White reconsiders Pale Fire, Nabokov's "great gay comic novel", and reads from the novel's opening. Hosted on Acast. …

Episode 21 - Interview with Tina Kover

Join me as I interview translator Tina Kover about her process and the books she has translated and world literature. Podcast Transcript Mentioned in this episode; Disoriental by Négar Djavadi The Black City by George Sand Georges by Alexandre Dumas Tina Kover Interview on Reading Women Podc…

Banned books: Vladimir Nabokov's infamous Lolita

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul... You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.” Nabokov had a lot of trouble getting anyone to publish a story about a grown man falling in love with a 12 year old. After multiple bans and scandals, Lolita caught fire in …

Unreliable Narrators, Twisted Truths: Why We Love Being Fooled in Books

It’s week two of April’s theme on Fully-Booked, and in today's literary podcast episode, we’re diving deep into the world of fools, tricksters, and - our main focus today - unreliable narrators. Last week, we examined the mythological and folkloric origins of fools and tricksters - how these figure…

Pale Fire (short)

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Dreaming in Fire, Working in Clay, & Reaching for Awe w/ Ramsey Campbell

In this interview, we chat with Ramsey Campbell about the importance of tapping into creative instincts, the pleasure of happy accidents, the lingering impact of eerie children's tales, and so much more. The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell as “Britain’s most respect…

Solo Bookplay (w/ Asa Donald)

You can support this show on Patreon⁠⁠! In this episode, I talk to Asa Donald is one-half of Backwards Tabletop, the publisher of the Backwards Universe of American horror games and Rust Never Sleeps, a solo mecha game. Their current project is Spine, a dark solo RPG about losing yourself in a boo…

THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2025 season is here. The 2024 archive is here. This episode, of which the …