This item is a bit far afield for this blog, but I bring it up because I mentioned the author Vladimir Nabokov a few posts back (scroll down to resolution #3). Nabokov was working on a new novel, to be titled The Original of Laura, at the time of his death in 1977. Nabokov had indicated to his family that he wanted the unfinished novel destroyed if he died before he completed it, and it has sat unpublished ever since.

Now Nabokov’s son Dmitri has decided to go ahead with publication. In an interview on NPR, Dmitri Nabokov talks about the process leading up to the decision. This little bit of trivia caught my ear: when asked how long the novel fragment was, Dmitri said that his father had completed 138 index cards, which would come out to be about 100 pages including some supplemental material. A date for publication has not been set yet, but it should happen fairly soon.