New novel pays homage to ‘Lolita’
A Nabokovian “Gossip Girl” that is refreshingly smart in how it is less about the labels and more about the lust exhibited by students and teachers, Joshua Gaylord’s debut novel “Hummingbirds,” which was released on Oct. 6, chronicles the “glowing daughters of the social elite” at Carmine-Casey, an all-girls school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. More »
