Lolita isn't a love story. It's a gothic horror novel.

"Like Tom Ripley and Patrick Bateman—and Count Dracula and Hannibal Lecter—Humbert fascinates mainly because of the chasm between his sophisticated urbanity and his brutal rapaciousness."



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On Keeping Chickens in the Literary Enclave of Oxford, Mississippi

For the past ten years I have lived in Oxford, MS, which is most famous for being the hometown of William Faulkner and John...