Recent exchanges on the subject of Lolita as sex book or not lead me to lift a slightly embarrassed self-promotional pen to announce a modest study of my own, Nabokov in America, due from Bloomsbury early in June. It's about the years 1940-60 with special attention to what N. wrote in that period, or conceived of in those years, and in passing it casts an eye on the "sex book" of the 20th century, a mini-tradition against which N wrote. Needless to say, I hope everybody will buy a handsome copy, then go out and buy a second one, too, as Kinbote advises us to do in the last paragraph of the Foreword to PF.