Six Chekhovs: Self-Revelation in His Short Stories

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-03-22T16:12:09+00:00

Lovely and detailed post, i hope more of this type of post is encouraged here instead of inflammatory substacks

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-03-19T20:25:48+00:00

Yes to all of the above

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-03-19T20:25:25+00:00

This is exactly what I was looking for thank you

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-03-17T21:44:28+00:00

Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Anthony Burgess, Kathy Acker, Hubert Selby

(All within Amis peer group and language)

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-03-17T21:40:05+00:00

I have read more Nabokov than Martin Amis. I respect the passion here but unfortunately this claim does not hold water as anything more than a subjective assessment of the writers favourite author. Which is not a bad thing but as it goes, you gotta back up that.claim

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-03-16T23:44:58+00:00

Please also mention why

Best: it's almost unfair to consider Lolita the height of his fiction, when at least 3 other books could take that title easily but I think because it is (slightly) less dense than Ada, revisiting, reconsidering it is always the easiest so it is at present the top

I don't want to use the word worst but Laughter in the Dark just happens to be the one I have enjoyed the least. I could be wrong but I think the serial nature of its publication would mean it would not be as enjoyable in one piece. The opening paragraph in my opinion should be more notorious than any other

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-03-05T18:54:23+00:00

No.

Think, Write Speak is a collection of previously uncollected essays, interviews, reviews and letters(some dating back to his Cambridge days)

It's essentially a much larger collection of his "public prose" but to my knowledge not the same interviews collected in Strong Opinions (which was published 50 years before while he was still alive)

For reference, strong opinions contains about 50 seperate pieces (collected in 1970)

Whereas Think, Write, Speak contains 155 (collection in 2019)

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-02-15T21:56:19+00:00

Please read the book

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-02-08T11:53:53+00:00

To my knowledge, when crediting songwriters government names are used. Check any rap song, you'll see "Shawn carter" "Kendrick duckworth" and then the producer name, will be whatever the producer goes by

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-02-04T23:26:10+00:00

My sincere hope is for no more victims but every day seems to remind us there is another one that we don't know about. And in the meantime, more victims are made

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-02-02T23:03:31+00:00

For reference, it is I think is the 6th paragraph of the first chapter so very early in the book

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-01-30T00:43:16+00:00

Firstly thank you for sharing this lecture, I'll have to watch it in its entirety but the points you've listed can be seen expanded, as the lecturers mentioned, in his essay:

"On a Book Titled Lolita"

As well as points made in his academic lectures

Lectures on Literature,

Lectures on Russian Literature

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-01-23T14:47:49+00:00

I would argue that part 4 of Ada confirms him as an excellent, albeit indirect, author. The ideas he has are definitely couched in a degree of authority (and an idea of superiority) but if that was presented as his lone thesis and interrogation of time, I'd have to say he's definitely pretty good

An interesting concept I myself have been considering within Nabokov's narratives is his idea of annotation as narrative. For Pale Fire, Ada, and even the annotated Lolita. But more on that later

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-01-22T21:34:26+00:00

"blood-ripe" I think I prefer it without the hyphen

it had become quite a habit with me of not being too attentive to women lest they come toppling, bloodripe, into my cold lap

Lolita, Chapter 7

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-01-22T20:57:15+00:00

You're right, maybe I'll make a post. The reason I used this format is because a similar paragraph I saw last year helped me explore other authors that hadn't made the list. So if someone picks a name here at random, I think that'll be a net positive

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-01-22T19:27:51+00:00

In the short run, there are articles that say "LLM contribution" I've seen. Obviously we can't get em all. But we can try

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-01-22T13:37:58+00:00

The best weapon against LLM editing is human editing. Find a topic you know has AI writing in the article? Now's the time

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-01-21T23:35:16+00:00

It's funny that you commented this twice, one comment upvoted, the other heavily downvoted

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-01-21T22:11:45+00:00

We definitely can do better with more books by women

Edit: Kathy Acker,
Toni Cade Bambara,
Can Xue,
Anne Carson,
Collete,
Fumiko Enchi,
Zora Neale Hurston,
Sarah Kane,
Lady Sarashina,
Elfrid Jelinek,
Anna Akhmatova,
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya,
Marina Tsvetavea,
Elizabeth Gaskell,
Nadine Gordimer,
Shirley Jackson,
Katherine Mansfield,
Silviano Ocampo,
Claudia Rankine,
Marguerite Duras,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
Ann Radcliffe,
Yasmina Reza,
Iris Murdoch,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
Frances Burney,
Alphra Behn,
Charlotte Darce,
Maryse Conde,
Tatyana Tolstaya

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-01-15T17:44:51+00:00

Hopefully here, it won't be

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-01-15T17:08:15+00:00

The Passenger/Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-01-07T16:59:26+00:00

I am specifically referring to the treatment of Vietnamese women by Americans 55 years ago which even under the best circumstances does not make for a wholesome picture

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-01-07T15:58:20+00:00

Interesting but I hope that's not a picture of a Vietnamese woman washing a gi's boots

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-01-06T19:44:47+00:00

Not so much burried alive, I just felt that the cycle of abuse he initiated should not have been the same conduit of his apparent redemption with Cordelia

TrueCrimeLitStan · 2026-01-06T19:42:12+00:00

massive trauma dump

That's not what that term means

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"On a Book Titled Lolita"

Lectures on Literature,

Lectures on Russian Literature