Writer and critic Catherine Taylor joins John and Andy on the Backlisted podcast to discuss Vladimir Nabokov's parting love letter to Russia and it's literature, The Gift, first published in English in 1963. Also; singing with nightingales and reading Richard Mabey's book about the same bird, David Storey's Booker Prize winning Saville, and Bob Dylan's song and dance routine.

Books Mentioned:

• Vladimir Nabokov - The Gift, Speak Memory, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, The Defense

• Katherine Taylor - The Stirrings

• Richard Mabey - Book of Nightingales

• Christopher Ricks - Dylan’s Visions of Sin

• David Storey - Saville, Flight into Camden

• Barry Hines - First Signs

• Paul Bassett Davies - Dead Writers in Rehab

• Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously

Other Links:

• Brian Bilston - The Refugees (reading/amatuer short-film)

• William Maxwell podcast

• Dylan winning the Nobel Prize

• Kubrick’s Lolita

• Nabokov BBc interview 1968

• Nabokov Paris Review 1967

• Nabokov reading

• Salter on meeting Nabokov