40. Vladimir Nabakov - The Gift
Writer and critic Catherine Taylor joins John and Andy on the Backlisted podcast to discuss Vladimir Nabokov's parting love letter to Russia and it's literature, The Gift, first published in English in 1963. Also; singing with nightingales and reading Richard Mabey's book about the same bird, David Storey's Booker Prize winning Saville, and Bob Dylan's song and dance routine.
Books Mentioned:
Vladimir Nabokov - The Gift, Speak Memory, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, The Defense
Katherine Taylor - The Stirrings
Richard Mabey - Book of Nightingales
Christopher Ricks - Dylan’s Visions of Sin
David Storey - Saville, Flight into Camden
Barry Hines - First Signs
Paul Bassett Davies - Dead Writers in Rehab
Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously
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