4/3/22 - Review of Ada, The Drama of the Oceans, and His Girl Friday

Here is the link to my April 3, 2022, Twitter thread review of the novel Ada, by Vladimir Nabokov, the book The Drama of the Oceans, by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, and the movie His Girl Friday, directed by Howard Hawks.

I messed up on this thread. It breaks off and then begins again at this link.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

4/22/19 discussion of Nabokov's influence on my art

Here is the link to my April 22, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about Vladimir Nabokov's influence on my art and writing -- in celebration of Nabokov's birthday.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still moderately coherent. My apologies.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

1/7/19 "open letter" to Nancy Ohlin about her novel Consent

Here is the link to my January 7, 2019, Twitter "open letter" to Nancy Ohlin, about her novel Consent and my own youth/adult love-themed amateur novel, Summer Azure.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still moderately coherent. My apologies.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

12/14/17 discussion of my amateur novel Summer Azure

Here is the link to a Twitter thread from December of 2017 where I discuss my amateur novel Summer Azure, which I'd just finished posting.

The thread mostly discusses my study sources for the novel -- which is a youth-adult romance between a girl dancing star and a reclusive business woman next door. The thread discusses how I was influenced by Nabokov's novel Lolita and Bonnie Nadzam's novel Lamb, but also how my novel differed from those novels. It discusses some case studies relating to my story, such as those of Claire Lyte, Kaitlyn Hunt, Mary Kay Letourneau, and Helen Goddard. And it discusses some of the other basic themes of my story.

The thread also gives a link to the novel, which is online and free to read.

10/22/16 review of novel Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the novel Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov.

The thread gives some background on and a summary of the novel, as well as some background on my experience with it. The thread discusses some of the romantic and family-allegory themes of the novel. It discusses some of the characters and character dynamics in the novel. It discusses the novel's humor and some of my favorite scenes in the novel. It discusses some of the queer aspects of the novel. And it discusses how the novel does and doesn't fit in with other English language and American literature.

I also give a link to my Instagram review of the novel, where I give a bit more of a discussion of my own artistic sensibilities and how they relate to the novel.

Here is the link to the Penguin Random House web page for Lolita.

I bought this book at the Mutiny Information Cafe used bookstore in Denver, Colorado.