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Tin House Live : Rebecca Makkai on The Ear of the Story

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

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The Relationship Between James and Lolita and Nabokov

"We are James when we read this book for no apparent reason," he says. "The conversation we're going to have here is what are we presumed to know? And what are we not presumed to know?" He's talking about fully third person narratives, like Judy Salinger and Nabokov.

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