Lolita in the Afterlife

A vibrant collection of sharp and essential modern pieces on Vladimir Nabokov s perennially provocative book with original contributions from a stellar cast of prominent twenty-first century writers.In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov s Lolita was published in the United States to immediate controversy and bestsellerdom. More than sixty years later, this phenomenal novel generates as much buzz as it did when originally published. Central to countless issues at the forefront of our national discourse art and politics, race and whiteness, gender and power, sexual trauma Lolita lives on, in an afterlife as blinding as a supernova. Lolita in the Afterlife is edited by the daughter of Lolita s original publisher in America.WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BYRobin Givhan  Aleksandar Hemon  Jim Shepard  Emily Mortimer  Laura Lippman  Erika L. Sánchez  Sarah Weinman  Andre Dubus III  Mary Gaitskill  Zainab Salbi  Christina Baker Kline  Ian Frazier  Cheryl Strayed  Sloane Crosley  Victor LaValle  Jill Kargman  Lila Azam Zanganeh  Roxane Gay  Claire Dederer  Jessica Shattuck  Stacy Schiff  Susan Choi  Kate Elizabeth Russell  Tom Bissell  Kira Von Eichel  Bindu Bansinath  Dani Shapiro  Alexander Chee  Lauren Groff  Morgan Jerkins