Lolita Podcast

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  • Who is Lolita? The Nabokov literary classic has sparked infinite discussion in the 65 years since its release, but the cultural memory the book has left behind lives more in romance and fashion aesthetics than a cautionary tale about a deceptive predator and his young prey. Jamie Loftus wants to know how we got here, and this series traces Lolita -- the person, Dolores Haze -- from her literary origin to current status as a doomed icon.
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  • Lolita Podcast Trailer
    Oct 21 2020

    Who is Lolita? The Nabokov literary classic has sparked infinite discussion in the 65 years since its release, but the cultural memory the book has left behind lives more in romance and fashion aesthetics than a cautionary tale about a deceptive predator and his young prey. Jamie Loftus wants to know how we got here, and this series traces Lolita -- the person, Dolores Haze -- from her literary origin to current status as a doomed icon.

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  • 1: Dolores, Not Lolita
    Nov 23 2020

    Who is Dolores Haze? Since Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov was published in 1955, readers have formed strong opinions on the story’s narrator and his framing of the titular character. But Lolita and Dolores Haze are far from the same person. Jamie Loftus gets into her history with the book, and dives into the events of the book.


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    Featuring the voices of Aziz Vora as Humbert Humbert, Robert Evans as Vladimir Nabokov, additional voice work from Anna Hossnieh, Shereen Lani-Younes, Grace Thomas, Isaac Taylor, and Miles Gray. Produced by Sophie Lichterman, Miles Gray, Beth-Anne Macaluso and Jack O'Brien. Editing by Isaac Taylor, additional editing by Ben Loftus. Written and hosted by Jamie Loftus.


    In this episode we talked about:

    Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

    The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

    Lewis Carroll: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/lewis-carrolls-shifting-reputation-9432378/

    The Mann Act: https://www.history.com/news/white-slave-mann-act-jack-johnson-pardon

    The Enchanted Hunters and the Hunted Enchanters: https://thenabokovian.org/node/50399

    This interview with Nabokov from the Paris Review: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4310/the-art-of-fiction-no-40-vladimir-nabokov

    Men Explain Lolita to Me: https://lithub.com/men-explain-lolita-to-me/

    Reading Lolita in Tehran: https://azarnafisi.com/book/reading-lolita-in-tehran/

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • 2: Volodya Takes America
    Nov 30 2020

    Vladimir Nabokov is your favorite author? Name five of his short stories written in Berlin in the 1930s. This week we look into how the author of Lolita's attempts at writing around the book's themes pre-dated his masterwork by several decades, the endless saga of getting Lolita published, some of the story’s earliest critical misinterpretations and the life of one of the 20th century’s best-regarded authors. Jamie speaks with Nabokovian Dana Dragunoiu and Nabokov's all-time biographer Brian Boyd.


    Featuring the voices of Aziz Vora as Humbert Humbert, Robert Evans as Vladimir Nabokov, additional voice work from Anna Hossnieh, Shereen Lani-Younes, Grace Thomas, Isaac Taylor, and Miles Gray. Produced by Sophie Lichterman, Miles Gray, Beth-Anne Macaluso and Jack O'Brien. Editing by Isaac Taylor, additional editing by Ben Loftus. Written and hosted by Jamie Loftus.

    Join our Discord for more discussion! https://discord.com/invite/TrXc6BkfpN


    In this episode we talked about:

    Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

    Nabokov in Russia by Brian Boyd

    Nabokov in America by Brian Boyd

    The Magician's Doubts by Michael Wood

    Nabokov’s Women: The Silent Sisterhood of textual Nomads, edited by Elena Rakhimova-Sommers

    Maurice Girodias (we didn't have time to cover him in depth here but the man is a piece of WORK): https://evergreenreview.com/read/lolita-and-mr-girodias/

    Early reviews of Lolita: https://bookmarks.reviews/sick-scandalous-spectaular-the-first-reviews-of-lolita/

    The Showgirl Who Discovered Lolita by Sarah Weinman: https://lithub.com/the-showgirl-who-discovered-lolita/

    Vladimir Nabokov and the Poetics of Liberalism by Dana Dragunoiu: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/vladimir-nabokov-and-poetics-liberalism

    The Enchanter by Vladimir Sirin (Nabokov)

    Still Intrigued with Lolita: Nabokov's Visionary Work on Child Sexual Abuse by Lucia Williams: https://thenabokovian.org/sites/default/files/2018-06/NABOKV-L-0027757___Williams_2016_StillIntriguedWithLol_Lolita.pdf

    Nabokov's Playboy Interview from 1964: http://reprints.longform.org/playboy-interview-vladimir-nabokov

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    1 hr and 5 mins

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Very thoughtful exploration of the phenomenon

There was so much meat to chew there really should be another season of this podcast. The exploration was thoughtful and interesting.

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A necessary and powerful story for CSA survivors and the uninitiated alike

As a CSA survivor this story was a piercing, thoughtful, brash breath of fresh air that - despite its narrow focus - explores and explains so much of the cultural mindset I’ve grown up around in my life. If I could give it 1,000 stars I would. Jamie Loftus is a champion.

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great Material let down by delivery, production

Super interesting topic; too much music and poor, intellectually incurious, unfunny narration.

Lines like "(Freud is wrong because)... he based his analysis of psychology on mythology, which is of course fake" are the kind of pop culture pseudo intellectualism that abounds.

I did listen to it all, but I couldn't recommend it.

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