Dmitri Nabokov has taken some weirdly disproportionate hits for the aspect of the book that deserves the greatest praise.

You know what would look good on your wall? A smug bull, that’s what. To celebrate the release of Lessons in French, Laura Kinsale is giving away a very limited edition print of an original artwork by Charles Rutledge. Inspired b...

Attention fans of bizarro television and legendary groupies: Fishbowl LA announces a literary event tonight in Echo Park featuring Laura Palmer's mom and the archetype for Kate Hudson's role in Al...

Vladimir Nabokov famously instructed his wife Vera to destroy his final, unfinished novel, The Original of Laura, if he didn’t live to complete it. At his death, the draft consisted of a stack of notecards which he’d shuffled throug...

Pictory is a website owned by Laura Brunow Miner that showcases photos that are collected from their original source: You. It is all about true, personal stories, and documentation of different lives and cultures. The Internet is br...

‘Tis the season for trying new things, and the group of writers behind the online publishing collective Book View Cafe are doing just that, releasing their first eBook anthology of original fiction: The Shadow Conspiracy, a collecti...

Rumpus contributor Zak Smith has made known his top three books of the year over at HTMLGIANT. Smith’s picks are a delightfully eclectic mix:  The Original of Laura by Nabokov (a fragmented, not meant to be published, unfinished nov...

       So yesterday they held an auction at Christie's of various books, manuscripts, letters -- and a typewriter. A four-page George Washington letter brought in the highest winning bid -- $3.2 million -- and some Poe stuff did ve...

       A reminder that the manuscript of Vladimir Nabokov's The Original of Laura -- now reduced to Lot 95/Sale 2227 at Christie's -- will be on view at the auction house that is flogging it in New York through 3 December; it goes o...

       In his review (not currently available online) of Vladimir Nabokov's The Original of Laura in the new issue of The New York Review of Books, John Lanchester offers a gratuitous parenthetical slam of Hermann Broch's The Death ...

If you're an author, be careful what you leave lying around. In the event of your death, anything might make it to print. For Vladimir Nabokov, it was a pile of index cards, now published as "The Original of Laura"...

. . . if you haven't yet noticed. John Banville's review of The Original of Laura is fun. He appears to have thought the text so critically uninteresting that he'd write about everything but that. Good for him. This edition is a tri...

The Original of Laura offers a glimpse under the hood of the chromed and gleaming Nabokov machine, writes Sam Anderson of New York Magazine.

There has been a great deal of hand wringing over Dmitri Nabokov’s decision to publish his father’s unfinished novel The Original of Laura. Dmitri recognizes this by dedicating the book to "all the worldwide contributors of opinion,...

The 92nd Street Y last night held the first public reading of Vladimir Nabokov's final, incomplete novel, "The Original Laura." Martin Amis, who flew in from London to speak, discusses his affection for Nabokov and disappointment wi...

Vladimir Nabokov's never-finished novel, "The Original of Laura," has finally been published to great interest and excitement. In honor of the new publication, LIFE Magazine is today releasing a gallery of rare photographs of the "L...

One of the controversial works in recent literary history was unveiled today with the publication of Vladimir Nabokov's final work of fiction, The Original of Laura, 32…...

Now that everyone is talking about the greatest novelist in the history of this language of ours, Nabokov, about his incomplete novel The Original of Laura, I want to offer not a few words (the title of the incomplete novel tells me...

Bookstores in New York and London will start on Tuesday the sales of Vladimir Nabokov's final unfinished novel, 'The Original of Laura.'...

Whilst we prep a large-ish Marginalia post, you'll want to cozy up with John Banville on Nabokov in the latest Bookforum: Aptly, we may begin with the title. The dust jacket has it as The Original of Laura: A novel...