Lolita in the afterlife : on beauty, risk, and reckoning with the most indelible and shocking novel of the twentieth century

9781984898838
1984898833

xxxvii, 413 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Introduction / by Jenny Quigley
Witness for the defense: my father and Lolita / Emily Mortimer
Vera and Lo / Stacy Schiff
On the road with Humbert and Lolita / Ian Frazier
Ugly beautiful / Roxane Gay
Badge of honor / Susan Choi
Watching the detective / Laura Lippman
Lolita diary / Alexander Chee
Delectatio morosa / Lauren Groff
Lolita. #me too, and myself / Morgan Jerkins
Lolita, Chamonix, France, 2018 / Andre Dubus III
The showgirl who discovered Lolita / Sarah Weinman
Fashion's Lolita; fragile, subversive, and a paean to white femininity / Robin Givhan
Lolita and the empathetic imagination / Jim Shepard
How Lolita freed me from my own Humbert / Bindu Bansinath
Ladies and gentleman of the jury / Christina Baker Kline
Charmed / Victor LaValle
They stay the same age / Sloane Crosley
Dear sugar / Cheryl Strayed
What we talk about when we talk about Lolita / Lila Azam Zanganeh
Nabokov's rocking chair: Lolita at the movies / Tom Bissell
Lo and behold / Jill Kargman
Acquiring Lolita's language / Aleksander Hemon
Charlotte's complaint / Jessica Shattuck
Lolita in the time of trigger warnings / Erika L Sanchez
Maison nymphette / Kate Elizabeth Russell
A living story of Lolita in Iraq / Zainab Salbi
The lollipop room / Kira von Eichel
The anti-monster / Claire Dederer
Lolita in lockdown / Dani Shapiro
t I cannot get out said the starling / Mary Gaitskill
Acknowledgments
About the editor
About the contributors
Permissoins acknowledgments

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Quigley, Jenny Minton, 1971- editor