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Scott Timberg on Creative Destruction

Neck and Neck Over Nabokov

May 20, 2010 by Scott Timberg

WELL gang, Misread City readers seem to be equally split between Pale Fire fans and Lolita fans — there is a joke here I can’t quite summon. In any case, because the vote ended in a dead tie, I have put up this blog’s first ever runoff to break the tie.

Please vote for one OR the other and please tell your friends.

All my best,

Scott

Filed Under: literary, Nabokov, Poll

Comments

  1. Peter says

    May 21, 2010 at 1:08 pm

    Hypothesis: gay men prefer Pale Fire; heterosexual men: Lolita. can’t guess for women.

  2. Scott Timberg says

    May 21, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    Or, poets prefer Pale Fire, pedophiles, Lolita.

  3. EdwardG_Burrell1016 says

    May 23, 2010 at 5:03 pm

    不要讓挫敗把你擺平,再給自己一個機會,從新再出發.............................................

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I'm a longtime culture writer and editor based in Los Angeles; my book "CULTURE CRASH: The Killing of the Creative Class" came out in 2015. My stories have appeared in The New York Times, Salon and Los Angeles magazine, and I was an LA Times staff writer for six years. I'm also an enthusiastic if middling jazz and indie-rock guitarist. (Photo by Sara Scribner) Read More…

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