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  28. Ibid.

  29. Edmund Wilson, The Fruits of the MLA (New York: New York Review Books, 1968), p. 7.

  30. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, pp. 67–68.

  31. Ibid., p. 208.

  32. Ibid., p. 171.

  33. LLP, p. 409.

  34. Vladimir Nabokov and Alfred Appel, The Annotated Lolita (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970), p. xlviii.

  35. Edmund Wilson, Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971), p. 176.

  36. Boyd, American Years, p. 313.

  3 SEX DOESN’T SELL…OR DOES IT?

  1. Edmund Wilson, The Forties (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983), p. 109.

  2. Meyers, Edmund Wilson, p. 311.

  3. LLP, p. 437.

  4. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 189.

  5. LLP, p. 438.

  6. Gennady Barabtarlo, “Nabokov in the Wilson Archive,” fn. 3, at http://revel.unice.fr/​cycnos/​index.html?id=1285.

  7. LLP, p. 444.

  8. Meyers, Edmund Wilson, p. 316.

  9. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 215.

  10. Ibid., pp. 313–314.

  11. Ibid., p. 229.

  12. Ibid.

  13. Ibid., pp. 313, 317.

  14. Harry Levin interview, Oct. 22, 1990, courtesy of Brian Boyd.

  15. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 320.

  16. Boyd, American Years, p. 377.

  17. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 363.

  4 WHOSE MOTHER IS RUSSIA ANYWAY?

  1. Boyd, American Years, p. 371.

  2. Roper, Nabokov in America, p. 246.

  3. Boyd, American Years, p. 648.

  4. Ibid., p. 613.

  5. “Legend and Symbol in ‘Doctor Zhivago,’ ” Encounter, June 1959.

  6. Stacy Schiff, Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) (New York: Modern Library, 2000), p. 244.

  7. Ibid., p. 243.

  8. Ibid., p. 244.

  9. Boyd, American Years, p. 386.

  10. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, pp. 222, 223.

  11. Edmund Wilson, The Triple Thinkers (New York: Noonday Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), p. 200.

  12. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 23.

  13. LLP, p. 535.

  14. Edmund Wilson, The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest (New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963), p. 115.

  15. Edmund Wilson, The Sixties (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993), p. 295.

  16. Boyd, American Years, p. 480.

  17. Newsweek, June 25, 1962.

  5 MEET EUGENE ONEGIN

  1. Eugenia Ginzburg, Journey into the Whirlwind (New York: Harcourt, 1967), p. 295.

  2. Andrei Sinyavsky, Strolls with Pushkin, trans. Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy and Slava Yastremski (New Haven: Yale University Press: 1993), p. 92.

  3. Nabokov, Onegin “Commentary,” part 1, p. 137.

  4. Nabokov, Onegin, vol. 1, p. 7.

  5. Quoted in James Russell, “Iranians, Armenians, Prince Igor, and the Lightness of Pushkin,” Iran and the Caucasus 18 (2014), p. 364.

  6. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 139.

  7. Ibid., p. 253.

  8. The New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1955.

  9. Boyd, American Years, p. 23.

  10. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 355.

  6 WHAT HATH NABOKOV WROUGHT?

  1. New York Times, June 20, 1982.

  2. Brockway letter, Oct. 1957, Bollingen Archive.

  3. Brockway letter, Feb. 1958, ibid.

  4. Wormer letter, July 29, 1963, ibid.

  5. Schiff, Véra, p. 214.

  6. Douglas Hofstadter, Le Ton Beau de Marot (New York: Basic Books, 1997), p. 268.

  7. Nabokov, Onegin “Commentary,” pp. 229, 462.

  7 “HE IS A VERY OLD FRIEND OF MINE”

  1. All three letters are in the Nabokov correspondence, Berg Collection.

  2. Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973), p. 240

  3. Letter from Lise to “Dear Anne,” Aug. 8, 1962, Nabokov correspondence, Library of Congress.

  4. Letter from William McGuire to Vladimir Nabokov, May 22, 1963, Berg Collection.

  5. Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940–1977, ed. Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew Bruccoli (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989), p. 345.

  6. Ibid., p. 358.

  7. LLP, p. 277.

  8. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 245.

  9. Ibid., p. 284.

  10. Ibid., p. 290.

  11. Edmund Wilson, “Pushkin,” A Window on Russia (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972), pp. 15–27.

  12. Stanley Edgar Hyman, The Armed Vision (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948), quoted in Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 233.

  13. Ibid., p. 652.

  14. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 17.

  15. Walter Arndt, trans., Eugene Onegin (Woodstock, NY: Ardis Publishers, 2002) , p. xv.

  8 WE ARE ALL PUSHKINISTS NOW

  1. Vladimir Nabokov, “A Reply to My Critics,” Encounter, Feb. 1966.

  2. Edmund Wilson, New Statesman, Jan. 5, 1968.

  3. Nabokov, Selected Letters, p. 424.

  4. Nicholas Dawidoff, The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World (New York: Pantheon, 2002), p. 201.

  5. Ibid, p. 201.

  6. Boyd, American Years, p. 215.

  9 UNTIL DEATH DO US PART

  1. Nabokov, Selected Letters, p. 393.

  2. Sweeney, “Sinistral Details,” pp. 179–194.

  3. Dabney, Edmund Wilson, p. 471.

  4. Meyers, Edmund Wilson, p. 461.

  5. Wilson, Sixties, p. 718.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Wilson, Income Tax, p. 92.

  8. Alfred Kazin, New York Jew (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), p. 238.

  9. Boyd, American Years, p. 381.

  10. Ibid., p. 365.

  11. Roper, Nabokov in America, p. 246.

  12. Richard Hauer Costa, Edmund Wilson: Our Neighbor from Talcottville (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1980), p. 149.

  13. Schiff, Véra, p. 308.

  14. LLP, p. 733.

  15. Martha Duffy interview for Time, undated, Berg Collection.

  16. Nabokov’s list of “suggested” changes to Field’s draft is in the Berg Collection.

  17. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 254.

  10 JUST KIDDING?

  1. Wilson, Income Tax, p. 12.

  2. Schiff, Véra, p. 183.

  3. Boyd, American Years, p. 46.

  4. Nabokov, Speak, Memory (New York: Everyman’s Library, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), p. 248.

  5. Boyd, Russian Years, p. 509.

  6. New Statesman, Dec. 1967.

  7. “Nabokov in the Wilson Archive,” at http://revel.unice.fr/​cycnos/​index.html?id=1285.

  8. New York Times, Jan. 16, 1972.

  9. New York Times, Feb. 6, 1972.

  10. Ibid., Mar. 5, 1972.

  11 WHY?

  1. Field, Life in Part, p. 25.

  2. Roper, Nabokov in America, p. 256.

  3. New York Times, July 5, 1977.

  4. Nabokov, Selected Letters, p. 374.

  5. Boyd, American Years, p. 495.

  6. George Steiner, “[article title?], The New Yorker, Dec. 10, 1990.

  7. Vladimir Nabokov, The Eye (New York: Vintage, 1990), preface.

  8. Paul Theroux, Sir Vidia’s Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998), p. 39.

  9. Elena Levin interview, Mar. 22, 1983, courtesy of Brian Boyd.

  10. Undated Martha Duffy dispatch for Time cover story, May 23, 1969, Berg Collection.

  11. Boyd, American Years, p. 48.

  12. Letter from Edmund Wilson to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oct. 21, 1933, LLP, p. 231.

  13. LLP, p. 478.

  14. Ibid., p. 497.

  15. Ibid., p. 309.

  16. Ibid., p. 653.

  17. Theroux, Sir Vidia’s Shadow, p. 99.

  12 AS I WAS SAYING…

  1. Times Literary
Supplement, Sept. 3, Sept. 17, Oct. 1, Oct. 15, 1982.

  2. New York Times, Nov. 14, 1982.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  ALEX BEAM is a columnist for The Boston Globe and a former Moscow correspondent. He is the author of two novels about Russia, Fellow Travelers and The Americans Are Coming!, as well as three works of nonfiction: American Crucifixion; Gracefully Insane; and A Great Idea at the Time, the latter two both New York Times Notable Books. He has also written for the International Herald Tribune, The Atlantic, Slate, and Forbes/FYI. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with his wife and three sons.

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