Quotes of the day
"When the house is on fire, it’s better to have a psychotic fireman than no fireman at all." –Howard Wolfson, quoted in The Atlantic.
"Had my father really wished that this novel not be released, he would have destroyed it himself." –Dimitri Nabokov, on Vladimir's last work.
(Further reading: Slate's role in saving the book: 1, 2, 3. Good stuff.)
February 10th, 2010 at 9:14 AM
[...] the material. But Dmitri didn't. He vacillated for years on what to do — as others campaigned — before finally deciding to publish the [...]