8/8/7
Many thanks to John Feith for his terrific Waxwing song, now the official song of Waxwing. It's been added to NaboPop as well, along with Hailey Wojcik's Nabokov's Butterfly (that one with many thanks to Doc).So yes. Two new NaboPop entries: John Feith & Hailey Wojcik. And three new Nabokovilia entries as well: McSweeney's, Susan Hubbard, and A Night in the Nabokov hotel.
5/8/7
Three new Nabokovilia entries: a Princeton math textbok, Claire Messud, and Gary Shteyngart. One updated Nabokovilia entry: Dan Simmons. Three new NaboPop entries: Game Theory, Kicking and Screaming, and Lost.12/12/6
Hello! Three more entries for Nabokovilia: Brian Howell (thank you, Akiko!), Shelley Jackson, and Francine Prose.8/19/6
It's been a full year! My apologies for all the slacking but--by way of compensation--here you go; there are buckets of additions.Nabokovilia additions: Isaac Adamson, MC Beaton, Lawrence Block, Christopher Bram, Richard Brautigan, Andrew Lewis Conn, Barbara Kingsolver, Arthur Phillips, Anne Rice, Katherine Weber, and Irvin Yalom.
NaboPop additions: Broken Flowers, Elefant, The Hold Steady, and The Waxwings.
Many, many thanks to Nick Grundy, Donald Barton Johnson, the Nabokv-L forum, Brad Shoup, and Akiko Nakata.
8/19/5
Three new additions to Nabokovilia: Teller's partner, Penn Jillette, Paul's brother, Alexander Theroux, and Touré. With many thanks to Doc and Abdellah Bouazza.2/19/5
Long time, no see. Happy new year! Two updates for Nabokovilia, one coming from a comic book (courtesy of Ben Wooller) and one from a book entitled Fundraising Through Silent Auction.Also noteworthy are smallish corrections to Bridges to Antiterra, though mostly it is a link to far better Ada site. So yes. Anyone interested in the novel is urged to visit Ada Online; it includes the text of the novel and professor Boyd's annotations. The site is accurate, beautifully organized, and rich with insight and information.
The Ada Online link also appears in the updated Compass Rose, as does this one: Hopkin, by Vladimir Nabokov, which is funny by itself, funnier if you click here first. (For an interesting but sobering explanation of the image, visit Hopkin Explained.)
Many thanks to Christopher Bishop for Hopkin, Ben Wooller to Campbell, and to professor Brian Boyd for Ada Online.
10/14/04
A Broadway musical! In NaboPop! Courtesy of my girlfriend, the lovely Rebekah Lane! Hello! It's been a few months--how goes it?
Also featured (in Vivian Darkbloom Lives!) are the illustrated reminiscences of Jacques-André Widmer, whose first interview was with Vladimir Nabokov. This is a wonderful, funny memoir, and well worth reading. So read it. 7/18/04
Alan Lelchuk in Nabokovilia, plus an addition to the John Updike entry. There will be updates to the news section soon, but there is, at least, this, and the Ada project, at Zembla, deserves attention and will doubtless provide you (and me) with many hours of happy reading.4/17/04
Three new Nabokovilia entries: James Hynes (courtesy of the wonderful Sue Buchman), Rabih Alameddine, and The Harvard Lampoon.4/11/04
Here's a new entry for NaboPop, thanks to the Nabokv-L forum (whose name has been corrected through most of this page as well as the main links page): Nick Cave!There are, incidentally, three more updates to Nabokovilia, but they'll most likely be on hold for at least a few hours.
1/9/04
Happy new year! There are two additions to Nabokovilia: one from Tom Carson's Gilligan's Wake, the other from Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife. Also: the Waxwing site is, as always, in need of financial aid. You can help out by bidding on this rare, out-of-print copy of Nabokov's Poems and Problems. There are other ways of helping, listed here.
There will be more updates in the near future. In the meantime, I hope that all is well with you, and that your year is off to a good start.
9/20/03
Listen to an mp3 snippet of the Roberts/Rockwell exchange in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. You'll find the file in the Fulmerford Annex.9/19/03
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind has been added to NaboPop. The Antonella Gambotto entry in Nabokovilia has been updated, as have been the links leading to the recently relocated, always invaluable Zembla.Reading Lolita in Tehran and the Overlook Illustrated Lives biography have been added to the Bibliography.
Lastly, the terrific Decemberists have been added to Bobolinks. (They were kind enough to link Waxwing here.)
3/29/03
A new addition to The Fulmerford Annex: the Panther edition of The Defense, designed by Dmitri Nabokov -- courtesy of Nicholas Richards. Also, there are news.1/11/03
Akiko Nakata has sent in a trove of beautiful Japanese editions of Nabokov's work. See them in the Annex. Professor Nakata and Tadashi Wakashima recently translated Transparent Things into Japanese, and have created a web site with annotations to the translation. The site has been added to the links page.
12/13/02
First off, a new entry to the Fulmerford Hall of Fame. Many thanks again to Katy Fenn for the donation.Also, there are new Nabokovilia entries: one for Boyle and one for Brockmeier.
11/3/02
More Zadie Smith for Nabokovilia.9/3/02
Two audio Nabokovian snippets have been added to the Annex, the first from Newsradio and the second from the X-Files.8/8/02
Alex Robinson in Nabokovilia!
Allison in Vivian Darkbloom Lives!
A small but important correction to this NaboPop entry!
7/2/02
Richard Bachman in Nabokovilia.6/21/02
A terrific bit for NaboPop, thanks to James Womack and the nabokv-l forum. Also, some additional news on the Horst Tappe book, which they've sent along with a very nice photograph and bookmark for you to print out and admire. Both the photo and the bookmark are Adobe Acrobat documents, and can be found in the Annex. 6/18/02
A bit of wonderful news, which prompts a minor tweak to the bibliography page.6/11/02
Even more media at the Media Annex.6/1/02
The Media Annex opens with two covers. Soon it will also host the audio snippet from Newsradio, plus whatever other bits of Nabokov-related media come in. They can no longer be hosted in this site proper -- not enough room. The site would need a $55 dollar donation to increase its storage quota, but for now this external solution seems good enough.Also, Corey Feldman in NaboPop. Yes! Corey Feldman!
5/24/02
Richard Powers has been added to Nabokovilia, The Wallflowers to NaboPop.4/17/02
Two new additions for NaboPop! There's I Shot Andy Warhol and also Six Feet Under. And there is one addition to Nabokovilia: Black House, by Stephen King and Peter Straub.2/25/02
A new addition to the Fulmerford Hall of Fame. (Thank you again, Joseph Brown!). Also, two new links for Compass Rose.2/12/02
Some new news. Also, two links added to Compass Rose: one on KQK, another that raises copyright issues. The latter is for anyone who might live where finding VN is very difficult. Otherwise, please visit a library or a bookstore.1/14/02
Kurt Andersen in Nabokovilia. (Happy new year!)12/18/01
Victor Pelevin in Nabokovilia.12/10/01
We're celebrating our five-year-anniversary! Woo!11/20/01
Way cool addition to Nabokovilia.10/16/01
Some VN movie news. Related: some changes and corrections to the Bibliography and Bookshop.10/1/01
Angels Flight, a police procedural, in Nabokovlia -- also, some minor but important corrections to the Bridges to Antiterra page.9/6/01
John Barth in Nabokovilia! (Many thanks (again!) to Waxwing Club member Kris Majer for the quote and reference.)8/31/01
Four more Postcard images: Two for Pale Fire, one for The Defense, and one for Speak, Memory -- all thanks to Isaias Fanlo Gonzalez.8/20/01
New NaboPop: The Nields. (20 entries in NaboPop! 20!)7/23/01
Two new Sundries links for Compass Rose, one from McSweeney's and the other from The New Yorker, and both tremendously funny and worth checking out. The latter belonged in Postcards, but it struck me as wrong -- legally & otherwise -- to scan an image that is available as a print for sale. (The same logic applies to a small portion of the images already posted in Postcards (those not out-of-print or otherwise unavailable for sale), but I'd rather not think about that just now.)7/3/01
Two very nice Russian editions for Postcards. (Courtesy of Waxwing Club member Dislaus. Thanks again!) 7/2/01
Neal Pollack is the 40th entry in Nabokovilia. Forty authors! We have forty authors!6/12/01
Some NaboPop badly in need of additional info: One for Northern Exposure and one for Bill Forsyth's Gregory's Two Girls. Also, some additional information on the Chabon Nabokovilia entry.6/11/01
More Chabon!6/6/01
More Nabokovilia! Michael Chabon's terrific Wonder Boys. Also: a new link for Compass Rose, a very funny parody by Ken Gordon.5/24/01
An update to the Donations page. Also: a link to a good brief review of The Defense in the News section.5/11/01
Some Fassbinder for Postcards. Ja. (Courtesy of yours truly's college library's excellent video collection.) 5/8/01
The first Nabopop entry for 2001! Collin Raye.4/27/01
Two links added to Compass Rose, one to a lecture at the Nabokov Museum by Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Chabon, another to a mammoth collection of essays on Nabokov's collected stories. Also, if curious, here is a link to some Nabokovilian moments in an Orson Welles biography (these won't be appearing in Nabokovilia proper, because I'm trying to keep Nabokovilia strictly for references in fiction).4/20/01
More Luzhin-related movie news.3/30/01
An addtion to Zadie Smith's Nabokovilia entry.3/21/01
One more Lolita link added to both the Lo-page and the Links page, thanks to Josh Chiet. Also, Kiran's VN page is linked under Bobolinks. And two really cool sets of graphics have been added to Postcards: You have an eccentrically observant reader to thank for finding Phantom Editorial Contributors in a defunct Caribbean airline's inflight magazine, and you have Krysztof Majer and Rafal Szczesniak to thank for a massive and fantastic collection of VN covers from Poland.
3/7/01
Substantial update and redusting of the links and Lo-links pages -- new links have been added and expired links have been swept under the rug. If I've missed any let me know.Also: Dramatic update and redusting of the Bobolinks page, which had not been messed with in some time. (Ditto on that one: If I've missed any entries please let me know.)
2/19/01
More returning contributors return with more contributions. This time it's Akiko Nakata with a Peter Moffat quote for Nabokovilia.2/9/01
The NaboPop reference discussed below has been updated as promised. Also: A Postcard for Spring in Fialta has been added.
And also: Now would be a fantastic time to donate to the cause -- I'm waiting on the employment authorization document from Texas. It looks like it might take another freaking month and I'm about as broke as broke can be.
2/1/01
Zadie Smith in Nabokovilia, and tons and tons of activity over in the Waxwing club. Also: keep an eye on this NaboPop reference, as I will be adding a little audio file to it in the next day or so.1/10/01
More returning contributors return! Many thanks to Aimee Morgan for the Erica Jong quote and reference in Nabokovilia. (Also, I have set up a donations page for Waxwing and the rest of the site -- so if you want to contribute, contribute. And if you don't, that's also OK. (It's not as if you're getting a tote bag or anything.))1/6/01
Happy new year! Here's some Nicholson Baker in Nabokovilia, thanks to returning contributor Akiko Nakata.12/1/00
Umberto Eco in Nabokovilia. (Thanks to a query made in April of 1999 -- misplaced soon after, then stumbled upon two days ago.)10/13/00
A Nabopop reference from Dar Williams, via one of Waxwing's returning contributors, Aimee Morgan. (Danke!)10/9/00
Two (funny!) Nabokoviliac bits for Nabokovilia, from The Man Who Wrote the Book.9/6/00
Two reviews of the Defence adaptation, thanks to Waxwing club member Gary Thompson. (Also: Bored? Take a look at my web log!)8/3/00
Some very welcome corrections to my translation of José Carlos Llop's entry in Nabokovilia.7/24/00 (A Few Hours Later)
This is a first: Multiple updates in one day. I paid my buck via Amazon and downloaded Stephen King's The Plant. Good stuff. Funny. And it has two good funny Nabokoviliac bits.7/24/00
Once again, Abdellah Bouazza has provided Nabokovilia with outstanding material -- this time, quotes from from G. Cabrera Infante's Three Trapped Tigers. Also, a link to Scraping the Barrel, a project involving a personal translation of Nabokov's early unpublished émigre writings: You'll also find it in Compass Rose under Sundries.7/19/00
OK: Lots of good stuff. Some timely news on the film adaptation of The Defense. Also, a cool indie addition to Nabopop. For Compass Rose, the links page, I've added Expressive Typography and New Media, which is terrific and worth a look, and the best Web-based use of a VN short story. Also in there: links to the relevant audio archive of NPR's Fresh Air show, which features a few segments on VN.This site now has a Hall of Fame, where I thank anyone who has bought stuff from the Wish List. Once again, thank you!
6/27/00
A terrific and generous chunk of Steve Martin's very funny Lolita at Fifty -- and a confession: Pure Drivel had been read, and enjoyed, for almost a year before I made the connection between its Nabokoviliac short and its right and proper place in Nabokovilia. Why? I don't know why. But follow the book for a sample of Martin's stuff. Akimbo!6/12/00
A new bit of poetry from a noted Spanish figure for Nabokovilia. Also, after much recutting and rewriting, my novel is finally available (via Xlibris). Please take a look.5/23/00
Two new Postcards: a Fawcett Crest King, Queen, Knave, and a chess-playing Nabokov for Pale Fire.5/16/00
Massive quoting from Lee Siegel's funny, relentlessly metatextual, mercilessly readable samosa of a novel, Love in a Dead Language -- for Nabokovilia. The links page, Compass Rose, has been updated: expired links have been swept under the rug (the site that compared Lo to Natalie Portman to the United Nations is, alas, no more), and new links have been found and added. (If you know of more, please share.) I've added also added a link to an excellent review of Vera to the News.4/24/00
More pictures for Postcards: Three more for Pale Fire, and one more for The Real Life of Sebastian Knight -- all thanks to the very amazing John Dennis Larkin, to whom the Postcards section owes many of its images.4/12/00
Prize-winning news! Also, I have added an advanced search option to the site.4/7/00
A new domain name! Waxwing and the rest of the Fulmerford site now have their own private Internet island: The main page of the VN site is now at http://www.fulmerford.com/waxwing/nabokov.html -- the main page of the site at large is http://www.fulmerford.com.The Site Map also has its own separate address: http://www.fulmerford.com/sitemap.html.
Also, there is an addition to the bit of news on the Atlantic Monthly.
Also, I plan to apply for immigration to Canada sometime around June 2001. I'd be very grateful for any help or advice -- please read my open letter to Canada.
3/28/00
More NaboPop! Lots more News!3/10/00
More Postcards! Thanks again to Jaime Saez Fernandez, this time for two sharp covers of VN's Russian translation of Alice in Wonderland.3/7/00
A new Pnin joins Postcards, thanks to Jaime Saez Fernandez.I have also added a link to my resume from the main VN page and from the Lolita page -- I'm a Colombian citizen, and I'll be graduating in August and will have the chance to extend my stay in the US (via the practical training visa) for a year. So I'm looking for a job that is in some way tangentially related to creative writing or computer science. All reasonable and unreasonable offers will be enthusiastically considered, since right now is not the best of times to be heading back to Colombia.
I'd also enjoy working in Canada, so if you know of any positions in tech support (or any other field) over there or anywhere, please contact me.
3/3/00
Both the Site Map and the main VN page now have a search engine that will look for pages within the site, thanks to the fine people at Atomz. Also, three new graphics for Postcards: a new Laughter in the Dark, one for The Defense, and a caricature from the 5 October 1998 issue of The New Yorker, which (slightly modified) also serves as the new header for the Waxwing site. (Re. Postcards: You might notice that the graphics look smaller -- I've reduced them somewhat to fit them (somewhat) into a standard computer monitor, but clicking most of them will give you the graphic at its original gargantuan size -- look for the graphics with a white border around them.)
2/28/00
Some Gore Vidal in Nabokovilia, and a partial redusting of the Bobolinks page. And I have set up the Waxwing Club through Yahoo! -- it's an extension of the site, and it has a bulletin board and a very good chatroom, so join and meet other Waxwing visitors (why not?).2/5/00
A new addition to Whirr, an updated Bibliography & Bookshop, with special atention payed to Scholarly Resources, and a wonderful new addition to Vivian Darkbloom Lives, from Wim Van Hoof.1/20/00
More Postcards, once again thanks to the amazing John Dennis Larkin, to which Waxwing owes most of its scanned paperbacks, and to whom this editor is very grateful. The new Postcards? There's a new Lo, one for Glory, and two for Mary. Enjoy.1/6/00
Happy New Year! There's more Rushdie in Nabokovilia, and also some Westlake.12/3/99
The second case of literary nonfiction to make into Nabokovilia -- Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem. (The first, by the way, was Truman Capote's Music for Chameleons.) And NaboPop gets Alice Donut.11/22/99
More William Boyd in Nabokovilia, thanks to Oren Shavit.11/15/99
Some news on a possible film adaptation, courtesy of the nabokv-l forum. Also, some more Postcards -- the Time-Life copy of VN's Bend Sinister (once again courtesy of John Dennis Larkin), and a cartoon from Men's Health.11/6/99
More Pnin in Postcards, as well as some Pale Fire and a much cleaner copy of Ada -- all courtesy of John Dennis Larkin. Thanks!11/3/99
Compass Rose (the links page) has been re-organized and slightly expanded. Navigation should be easier now, and more intuitive -- the links are divided into five categories, which might help (I hope) make sense of the VN resources out on the net; it beats its previous incarnation in intelligibility, though some introductory explanations might be necessary.10/28/99
More Postcards. Also, a new entry for Whirr.10/15/99
Three more Postcards, along with a thoroughly revised look (a little sportier than the rest of Nabokov, but the sportier content warrants it). Postcards also boasts a Thumbnail page.You may have noticed the form atop this page (and a few others scattered around the Fulmerford site. I've set up a mailing list, and the plan is to send out a bi-monthly update log -- with maybe current VN news and quotes. We'll see how it works out. Sign up if interested.
10/6/99
An interesting bit of news has been added. Also, one more book cover for Postcards... (Remember to send scanned artwork if you have any.) I have also added a Wish List, courtesy of the fine folks in Amazon.Com -- anybody who joins the effort will receive special mention in the (as yet unbuilt) Fulmerford Hall of Fame... Totally shameless? Yes.Technical note: Tripod, the excellent (and free) web-hosting service currently hosting these pages, has simplified its URLs. Thus, Waxwing can be found at http://pigbodine.tripod.com/waxwing/nabokov.html, and the site map is available at http://pigbodine.tripod.com/. The older, longer address will continue to work.
9/18/99
Postcards, long-planned and finally here, opens with a few scanty (and shamelessly pilfered) graphics. The section will be devoted to Nabokovian book-art, cover-art, caricatures, anything and everything, but no actual photographs of the writer, since excellent collections are already available online. Your contributions are needed.9/17/99
Whirr, part of Waxwing Books & Music, has been updated to show what I read this summer. Check it out!9/4/99
What's new? Everything! The site has been both expanded and simplified, not to mention moved to a totally different locale.A few highlights: Nabokovilia, NaboPop, and Vivian Darkbloom Lives! have been made much easier to navigate through; every page now has a "semi-Nabokov" (a tilted half profile of the Master) which leads home; and a Site Map has been added.
Recent additions: A Nabokov Contest? Yes! The Barcelona Review is sponsoring a Quiz -- get it right and you might win the VN title of your choice. While you're there, be sure to check out the fiction and poetry featured therein. Also note the new additions to NaboPop and Nabokovilia.