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Speak, Memory

Vladimir Nabokov

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Ross Douthat recommends it
Um, I have been reading uh, Speak Memory by Vladimir Nambacov, Nbachov, however you want to pronounce it, which is his sort of memoir uh, mostly of his boyhood as a Russian aristocrat before the Russian the Russian Revolution. Uh, I would I would recommend that to people who don't want to be post-literate, who want to be very very literate indeed.

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