Nabokov in The X-Files!
Check out The Enchanted Hunter motel -- a nod to Lolita's The Enchanted Hunters hotel -- in this X-Files episode from the 2016 season, "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster." The episode was written by Darin Morgan, who is no stranger to awesome Nabokov references. His 1996 X-Files episode, "Jose Chung's From Outer Space," features a space overlord named Lord Kinbote.
Nabopop: Pale Fire in Noah Baumbach's Mistress America
Check out Greta Gerwig holding Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire in Noah Baumbach's lovely, effervescent, way way funny Mistress America!
Nabokovilia: David Mitchell's Number 9 Dream
A million thanks to Anne Stevens for this awesome bit of Nabokovilia: "On p. 28 of Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell there is a movie poster reading 'The Life and Times of John Shade.'"
NaboPop: Nabokov's Pale Fire in Spike Jonze's Her
The Vintage paperback edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is visible just above and to the right of Joaquin Phoenix in this frame of Spike Jonze's new movie Her (screen capture below totally stolen from Zemb.la; thanks to the Nabokv-L forum for the tip):
See also: Nabokov's Ada pops up just behind Paul Rudd in I Love You, Man.
See also: Nabokov's Ada pops up just behind Paul Rudd in I Love You, Man.
Nabokovilia: Updike's The Afterlife and Other Stories
"Don't make me laugh. I'll get urinary impotence." It was a concept of Nabokov's, out of Pale Fire, that they both had admired, in the days when their courtship had tentatively proceeded through the socially acceptable sharing of books. She managed. In Ireland's great silence of abandonment the tender splashing sound seemed loud. Psshshshblippip. Allenson looked up to see if the hawks were watching. Hawks could read a newspaper, he hand once read, from the height of a mile. But what could they make of it?
SIGHTING: John Shade Sings!
Recording under the pseudonym John Shade (a name he gleaned from a fictional poet in the Vladimir Nabokov novel “Pale Fire’’), Godowsky has released his debut album, “All You Love Is Need.’’(The rest at The Boston Globe.)
The musician's official web site is at http://johnshademusic.com/
An Annotated Pale Fire Website
Pale Fire Notes is actually pretty awesome and impressive (despite the self-effacing description):
Being some incomplete and largely irrelevant notes and commentary on Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, first posted pseudonymously to thePynchon-L mailing list June to November 2003. Page references are to the 1989 Random House Vintage edition.
The website can be accessed at http://importantwork.com/text/palefire/index.html