Author Alex Beam at AHS on 3/15 7pm discussing new book The Feud

Join us in the Arlington High media center for fascinating conversations with influential thinkers and writers. Hosted by journalist David Whitford of Arlington, these lively evenings actively involve audience members in the discussions. To register: http://bit.ly/2I9uYAV

Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam’s latest book The Feud is a “deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of mutual pique and egomania.” It is both literary biography and a chronicle of the dissolution of an intimate friendship.

In 1940, Edmund Wilson was the big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian exile seeking asylum in the States. Wilson became a mentor to Nabokov, introducing him to every editor of note and engineering a Guggenheim Fellowship. But then came the worldwide best-selling novel Lolita, and the tables were turned. Suddenly Nabokov was the big (and very rich) dog.

Join the author in this evening of spirited conversation. Alex Beam is a former Moscow bureau chief for Business Week, and author of three other works of nonfiction: American Crucifixion, Gracefully Insane and A Great Idea at the Time.