Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • The American Scholar

    Literary Information Derived From Privileged Writers

    Mar 04, 2019 3 minutes
    ANN BEATTIE

    1. From Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya (letters exchanged between critic Edmund “Bunny” Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov):

    Dear Volodya: I was awfully glad to hear about your book. Did you make any arrangement with them for subsidizing you while you write another?

    Surely no joke can be intended. This is definitely not a case of a member of the establishment dissing an ambitious writer. A bald-headed critic (no value judgment is implied) and a lepidopterist-writer privileged to spend his time running around

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from The American Scholar

    The American Scholar6 min read
    For Whom Do We Create?
    American Fiction is the film I’ve been waiting for since I majored in ’lm studies at Columbia University more than two decades ago. Only 27 minutes into it, I was compelled to stop, not only so that I could contemplate the beauty and complexity of th
    The American Scholar4 min read
    Four Poems
    Driving south, I cross it—the intangible line beyond which bougainvillea grows, beyond which the land is flagrant. It’s not exact; there is no sign as with a border, so everybody knows. It doesn’t waft to me; it’s not even fragrant. When I see the bu
    The American Scholar5 min read
    Born To Be Wild
    One November afternoon, while jogging on the edge of a swamp about two miles from his house in Massachusetts, John Kaag encountered a lone wolf. As he ran frantically homeward, he discovered a rock cave in his own back yard that he had never noticed

    Related Books & Audiobooks