Remembering Dmitri Nabokov, the Novelist’s Son and Literary Executor
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A collection of Vladimir Nabokov's Selected Poems is being published this month. Brian Boyd, the author of the new book Why Lyrics Last, is best known as the world’s foremost expert on the great writer—his definitive two-volumebiography was published in 1993. He remembers the novelist’s son, Dmitri, who died at the age of 77 in February, who was a bon vivant, car lover, and literary executor of his father’s legacy. Plus, Lila Azam Zanganeh on the nights she spent reading to Dmitri.
Dmitri Nabokov liked many things, but few better than playing the host—a disposition he may have inherited from his father’s father, like his love of music, of telephones, and of cars, and another sharp
