{"id":49130,"date":"2013-03-25T09:30:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T13:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=49130"},"modified":"2013-03-25T11:28:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T15:28:26","slug":"indian-comics-professor-nabokov-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/25\/indian-comics-professor-nabokov-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Comics, Professor Nabokov, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/173122.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/173122.jpg\" alt=\"173122\" width=\"462\" height=\"411\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/173122.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/173122-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You must begin your week by looking at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/the-5-most-insane-moments-in-indian-comic-books\/\" target=\"_blank\"> this list <\/a>of head-scratching moments from Indian comics.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFacing him on the stage was his white-haired wife Vera, whom he identified only as \u2018my course assistant.\u2019\u201d In Professor Nabokov\u2019s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2013\/apr\/04\/a-from-nabokov\/\" target=\"_blank\"> classroom<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In light of the matter of Wikipedia plagiarism, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2013\/mar\/25\/jane-goodall-book-accused-plagiarising-wikipedia?CMP=twt_fd\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Goodall\u2019s book<\/a> has been postponed.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/post\/31268367340\/the-first-ads-for-famous-books\" target=\"_blank\">very first ad<\/a> for <em>Winnie the Pooh<\/em>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Remembering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/pageviews\/2013\/03\/army-targets-the-historic-home-of-two-literary-sisters-in-the-hudson-river-valley\" target=\"_blank\">the Warner Sisters<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cAmerica\u2019s answer to the Bront\u00ebs.\u201d \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You must begin your week by looking at this list of head-scratching moments from Indian comics.\u00a0 \u201cFacing him on the stage was his white-haired wife Vera, whom he identified only as \u2018my course assistant.\u2019\u201d In Professor Nabokov\u2019s classroom. In light of the matter of Wikipedia plagiarism, Jane Goodall\u2019s book has been postponed. The very first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[9450,10444,967,10445,9451],"class_list":["post-49130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-a-a-milne","tag-jane-goodall","tag-vladimir-nabokov","tag-warner-sisters","tag-winnie-the-pooh"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Indian Comics, Professor Nabokov, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"March 25, 2013 \u2013 You must begin your week by looking at this list of head-scratching moments from Indian comics.\u00a0 \u201cFacing him on the stage was his white-haired wife Vera,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/25\/indian-comics-professor-nabokov-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Indian Comics, Professor Nabokov, and Other News by Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"March 25, 2013 \u2013 You must begin your week by looking at this list of head-scratching moments from Indian comics.\u00a0 \u201cFacing him on the stage was his white-haired wife Vera,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/25\/indian-comics-professor-nabokov-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-03-25T13:30:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-03-25T15:28:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/173122.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"462\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"411\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/25\/indian-comics-professor-nabokov-and-other-news\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/25\/indian-comics-professor-nabokov-and-other-news\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sadie Stein\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9\"},\"headline\":\"Indian Comics, Professor Nabokov, and Other News\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-03-25T13:30:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-03-25T15:28:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/25\/indian-comics-professor-nabokov-and-other-news\/\"},\"wordCount\":81,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/25\/indian-comics-professor-nabokov-and-other-news\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/173122.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"A.A. 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