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Reading Lolita in America: A Panel Discussion with Sarah Weinman, Morgan Jerkins, Susan Choi, and Catherine Chung

More than six decades after publication, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov remains one of the most controversial and iconic novels of the 20th century, one that inspires heated debate for its content—and its most unreliable narrator, Humbert Humbert—and rapturous praise for its inventive language.

The experience of reading (and re-reading) Lolita can’t help but change over time and in response to the culture. Can Dolores Haze, the titular character, ever be centered in the narrative? What do we gain and lose by reading Lolita today?

Join Sarah Weinman, author of The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, An Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece, recently published in paperback, as she discusses what it is to read Lolita, in America and beyond, with three of her favorite writers: Susan Choi (Trust Exercise) and Catherine Chung (The Tenth Muse) and essayist Morgan Jerkins (This Will Be My Undoing).











When: Thu., Sep. 26, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Where: The Center for Fiction
15 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, NY
212-755-6710
Price: $10 admission; $10 off at bookstore
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More than six decades after publication, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov remains one of the most controversial and iconic novels of the 20th century, one that inspires heated debate for its content—and its most unreliable narrator, Humbert Humbert—and rapturous praise for its inventive language.

The experience of reading (and re-reading) Lolita can’t help but change over time and in response to the culture. Can Dolores Haze, the titular character, ever be centered in the narrative? What do we gain and lose by reading Lolita today?

Join Sarah Weinman, author of The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, An Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece, recently published in paperback, as she discusses what it is to read Lolita, in America and beyond, with three of her favorite writers: Susan Choi (Trust Exercise) and Catherine Chung (The Tenth Muse) and essayist Morgan Jerkins (This Will Be My Undoing).

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