Tag: Vladimir Nabokov

• The Hardest Working Man in Weird Fiction: A Jeff VanderMeer Interview

  This interview first appeared on Literary Kicks on December 19, 2008. In 2018, Paramount pictures will release Annihilation, a film based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer, starring Natalie Portman and Jennifer Jason Leigh. In close proximity to primordial Florida swamps, branch-shrouded canopy roads, and Kafkaesque state capital intrigues, Jeff and Ann VanderMeer are Tallahassee’s…

  Bill Ectric

  June 12, 2017

  Annihilation, books, City of Saints and Madmen, Finch, Jeff Vandermeer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nabokov, Natalie Portman, Predator, Science Fiction, Vladimir Nabokov, weird fiction, Weird Tales

• Connections

  I often write about the exhilaration I feel when one good book leads to another and another. After reading and enjoying Ticket to Minto, I interviewed the author, Sohrab Homi Fracis. He mentioned that he was pitching his novel-in-progress as “Jack Kerouac’s On the Road meets Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake.”  This piqued my interest in The Namesake. I picked it…

  Bill Ectric

  September 28, 2011

  ghost story, Gogol, Jhumpa Lahiri, Nikolai Gogal, satire, Sohrab Homi Fracis, The Namesake, The Overcoat, Ticket To Minto, Vladimir Nabokov, writers