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• Books | In Chicago midfields, Hemon discovers transcendental soccer nation

  
  The Global Game — Authority:
  Nov 30 | As theological statements go, the title of Aleksandar Hemon s essay in the current Granta , "If God Existed, Hed Be a Solid Midfielder," would not impress the plethora of seminarians in Hemons adopted home, Chicago. Nevertheless, for the acclaimed writer from Sarajevo, absence of soccer means spiritual ...
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• Nabokov discusses Lolita

  
  Celsius1414 — Authority: 127
  Video of Vladimir Nabokov discussing Lolita on a television interview program. The YouTube uploader believes it is from the CBC’s Close-Up , which ran from 1957-1963, but I haven’t been able to confirm that elsewhere. It’s cool to hear Nabokov’s voice, not to mention strange as he was not a fan of live ...
  15 hours ago

• League-leading Sharks beat Canucks 4-2 (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  Dan Boyle scored the go-ahead goal on a power play 6:15 into the second period, and Evgeni Nabokov made 28 saves to lead the San Jose Sharks to a 4-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday night. Manny Malhotra scored on a breakaway with 2:35 left and Jamie McGinn made it 4-1 on a scramble in front 13 seconds ...
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• Links: Leftovers

  
  Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes — Authority: 549
  What foreigners might read to better understand the “ American character .” An author gives up on writing criticism: “I know intimately that the worst novels ever written took more fearlessness, will and soul than the best book reviews ever written.” To buy the time work on a play or another book, Richard ...
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• San Jose Sharks: Defense in Need of an Upgrade

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 777
  Despite squeaking out a 5-4 shootout victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Friday, the San Jose Sharks experienced many of the same problems that enabled the Chicago Blackhawks to embarrass them on their home ice just two days prior. Poor defensive coverage and lack of hustle allowed the injury-plagued and ...
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• Knuckle Puck: Booby-Trapped Center Ice Logo Foils Sharks

  
  Back Porch FanHouse — Authority: 557
  by Kevin Schultz Filed under: Blackhawks , Islanders , Sharks , NHL Videos Each and every Saturday this season Ill be taking a look at the random happenings and absurdities that occur in the world of hockey. Feel free to suggest stories, complain or otherwise babble at me via electronic mail . When ...
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• The Original of Laura, Running and Your Face Tomorrow

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Reviews roundup " The Original of Laura adds nothing to our appreciation of its author," Kevin Jackson declared in the Sunday Times. "Might this have been a great novel had Vladimir Nabokov lived a few more years? Maybe . . . It is at best an elegant literary folly: a handsome piece of book-making, but hardly a ...
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• San Jose Sharks: 7-2 Loss Reminds Fans of April Showers

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 777
  When a club scores three short-handed goals in a single game, the opposing team isnt  going to win. But when the three "shorties" build a 3-0 lead and the second two come on the same power-play, the morale of the opposing team can sink no lower. However, in any sport, overcoming adversity is a must if a team has ...
  4 days ago

• Thinking INSIDE the Box!

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Creativity is often equated with "thinking outside the box," but we think thats topsy-turvy. By playing with our open-ended puzzle, you can discover why. Readers have made favorable comments on our recent post concerning the role of constraints in defining the creative process ( Oct. 6, 2009 ). But recognizing that ...
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• Keeper pool update

  
  The Ryan Coke Experience — Authority: 126
  So about two months, I blogged about entering my first ever keeper hockey pool league, and my draft results.Later, I wrote about a major trade that happened that I was involved in. I thought it would be fun to revisit those picks and see how I’m faring so far, about a quarter-way into the season.Round [...]
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• Distinguished Private Collections Lead Three Books and Manuscripts Auction

  
  WorthPoint — Authority: 134
  This extremely rare first edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s first book, “Tamerlane”—a collection of poems published in 1827—is expected to bring in between $500,000 and $700,000 at Christie’s The William E. Self Library Part I: Important English and American Literature auction. NEW YORK – On Dec. 4 and Dec. ...
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• Nabokov backlist gets a face lift

  
  Quill & Quire — Authority: 562
  The Original of Laura , Vladimir Nabokov’s final work, has just been released. To coincide with its publication, Vintage has commissioned new cover designs for the 21 Nabokov backlist titles to which it owns rights. Of course, publishers do this kind of repackaging all the time. (HarperCollins Canada recently did ...
  6 days ago

• Unfinished business

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  In the week that Penguin opened the vaults on one of the most tantalising of all literary legacies, Vladimir Nabokovs unfinished novel The Original of Laura, we discuss the decision to disobey the authors wish that it be destroyed. Is it an unfinished masterpiece or the random jottings of a dying man? Actor Dominic ...
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• Friday Finds: November 20, 2009

  
  Bryan's Book Blog — Authority: 127
  Friday Finds (hosted by Should Be Reading ) What great books did you hear about/discover this past week? Share with us your FRIDAY FINDS! After grading college freshman writing papers all week, I’m not feeling very loquacious right now, so I’ll let these books speak for ...
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• I Am Dead, Therefore, Publish

  
  The Book Catapult — Authority: 104
  Theres been a bit of discussion at Warwicks this week concerning dead authors and their posthumous works - an intensive, full-staff round-table discussion piece is under way for the Warwicks blog - stimulated by this weeks publication of Vladimir Nabokovs unfinished novel, The Original of Laura . The debate ...
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• Selling the Dead: Nabokov Redesigned

  
  HarperStudio — Authority: 491
  How do you “properly” publish a posthumous work? This is something we talked a lot about with regard to WHO IS MARK TWAIN? and it’s a question David Gates takes on in his clear-eyed review of “The Original of Laura,” Nabokov’s eagerly anticipated novel in fragments. Here, Gates points out the slightly ...
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• 2009 NHL Fantasy 3 Stars: Week 7

  
  Total Pro Sports — Authority: 623
  The seventh week of NHL Fantasy 3 Stars is brought to you by the color red as youll see it on 3 out of the 4 players jerseys. Dont fret though as we do show some love for other colors of the rainbow this week with our 3rd star sniper...who happens to be from Russia. This weeks honorable mention goes to Niklas ...
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• The Original of Laura: a Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov: review

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Robert DouglasFairhurst finds that more than three decades after The Original of Laura was laid to rest Vladimir Nabokovs final work still tricks and teases
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• Book World: Michael Dirda reviews Vladimir Nabokovs Original of Laura

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 958
  THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA (Dying Is Fun) By Vladimir Nabokov
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• My Kinbote moment

  
  Disambiguation — Authority: 126
  Q: Was I indirectly responsible for the publication of Nabokovs The Original of Laura ? A: Leland de la Durantaye just sent me a link to a recent WBUR show , on which he and Brian Boyd (VNs biographer) talked about TOOL . LDLD reminded me that Ron Rosenbaum (the chief advocate for publishing TOOL vs. burning it, ...
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