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We mentioned Nabokov in our top story today. Nabokov is one of those authors so adored by his fans that the veneration approaches cultish dimensions. Here’s an example - a list of his favourite films. As previously reported in the Dailies, Nabokov was a fervent lepidopterist. Here’s a fetching blog on butterfly photography.

We also mentioned David Foster Wallace in the same story. Here’s a BBC documentary on the man and his work. Samuel Beckett fans won’t want to miss this rare feature-length television documentary on the Modernist master of grim comic tedium, Waiting for Beckett: A Portrait of Samuel Beckett.

Yesterday we posted a video of Sophie Cunningham’s Lunchbox/Soapbox last week. Here’s a review of her last edition of Meanjin, published by Overland. And here Sophie writes on Meg Mundell’s new novel, Black Glass (previously mentioned here).

If Australian literature has hitherto lacked a strong sense of regional identity, that may be about to change, not least thanks to ABC Radio National’s Book Show blog on the literature of Western Australia.

Here’s a video to inspire incorrigible procrastinators, and here’s a blog on punctuation.