The 2012 Olympics are over. If you weren’t in the UK you might not have been aware of just how transformative these two weeks were. That I’m even talking about it is evidence enough. Like many of my geek and writer friends I’ve often found myself in the position of fighting against the popular attention…
Category: Nabokov
Text as Art
Get a peek at the exhibit via the magic of video: choose your video outlet. We had a great time and it was fascinating to hear the genesis of the (all very different) projects. If you’re in the neighborhood, drop by the Arts Center and check it out. Text as Art from Kate Laity on…
Text as Art Tonight
The opening of the Text as Art gallery show with my piece “The Square Root of I is I” will be tonight at the Arts Center at 7pm. I will likely read from “Wixey,” the story that initially inspired the project (unless I change my mind). Add to the long list of things I will…
Friday’s Forgotten Books: Bend Sinister
It’s a bit cheeky suggesting that a Nabokov book could be “forgotten” but I think I can make a case here. After all, Amazon lists the most recent edition as the one from 1990. But first let me mention this fabulous design by Carol Carson for the Nabokov Specimen Box Project, a fantastic design project:…
Publications: Plea, Professor and Provocateur
I thought I would have Bend Sinister read by today so I could write it up for Friday’s Forgotten Books (maybe I will later today), but at present I don’t and somehow I have decided that today is finally “Send out Queries for the Non-Fiction Project” Day, so there’s that. In case you missed it,…
K. A. Laity 