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A Linguistic Resurrection

The National Book Award winner was just announced, and Peter Matthiessen's Shadow Country came out on top. Good for him. I haven't read it. So I'm still saying Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project, which was on the shortlist, should have won.

Legal Lolitas

I have always wondered why certain cars remain off limits to men of a particular age.

Nabokov's Attempted Murder

Kill your darlings.

This is the command given young writers when they're learning to edit their stories and poems. (It usually comes directly after the first piece of advice for novice authors: Quit now.)
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