Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century by Jenny Minton Quigley

Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century

Jenny Minton Quigley with Erika L. Sánchez, Alexander Chee, Emily Mortimer, Sarah Weinman, Stacy Schiff, Bindu Bansinath, Jessica Shattuck, Susan Choi, Lila Azam Zanganeh, Robin Givhan, Kate Elizabeth Russell, Lauren Groff, Morgan Jerkins, Zainab Salbi, Claire Dederer, Aleksandar Hemon, Mary Gaitskill, Kira von Eichel, Jim Shepard, Victor LaValle, Sloane Crosley, Roxane Gay, Jill Kargman, Ian Frazier, Andre Dubus III, Cheryl Strayed, Tom Bissell, Laura Lippman, Christina Baker Kline, Dani Shapiro

456 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

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A vibrant collection of sharp and essential modern pieces on the perennially controversial Lolita, by a wide range of celebrated writers, edited by the daughter of Lolita's original publisher. In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was published in th...

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challenging 61%
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funny 7%
inspiring 7%
hopeful 3%

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