To Do: Keillor and Collins, Lolita, or Twins Smut
• A Prairie Home Companion's Garrison Keillor and former poet laureate Billy Collins head on over to the 92nd Street Y tonight to read from their respective anthologies. In extrodinarily soothing, monotone voices, no doubt. [flavorpill]
• Not that you read it in college when you should have, but Vladimir Nabakov's Lolita celebrates its 50th anniversary. Go hear a panel of distinguished scholars pay homage to the novel that provided a convenient catchprase to describe our country's current surplus of teenage skanks. [Paper]
• Marcy Dermansky reads from her debut novel Twins as part of Galapagos Art Space's SMUT series, which includes, says the New York Times, "Art that should carry a Parental Advisory label." One might say the same thing about New York Times. [Upcoming]