This is fascinating historical true crime, in which Weinman shares the real story behind controversial fictional novel Lolita. Weinman tells of Sally Horner’s kidnapping and 21 months of mistreatment at the the hands of a Frank La Salle. Through extensive archival research, Weinman is able to make a persuasive claim that Vladmir Nabakov’s Lolita was inspired …
If you Google my name (not that I’ll admit to having personal experience doing this) one of the first things you’ll see is a photo of a blond, bronzed bodybuilder wearing a tank top sized for a toddler. That’s not me. It’s someone with the same name, a guy who participated on a TV show called Gladiators that aired …
“While shelving in the Fiction section (ah, the sweet rewards of shelving!), I came upon a used copy of Nabokov’s stories and began leafing through its pages. Years ago, I’d read his charming and much anthologized “Mademoiselle O,” but all the others here were new to me, each luminous in its own way. They range …
