EDNote: As most readers probably know, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were the creative core of the 70s-80s vintage pop-rock group "Steely Dan." Their most recent album together is "Everything Must Go" (2003).

Subject:	Steely Vlad
Date:	Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:00:07 -0500
From:	Jay Livingston <livingstonj@mail.montclair.edu>
To:	Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>

"When Walter [Becker] and I met, we had a constellation of enthusiasms, 
really -- science fiction, jazz, black humor, novels by Thomas Berger, 
Terry Southern, Philip Roth, Vladimir Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut 
especially.  That certainly influenced the lyric writing."

Donald Fagen interviewed in New York Magazine, issue of March 27.

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