I like his «novelette» i wake up to it every morning i also like his rhaposdy on ukrainuan themes
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The framing meta narrative as a biting critique of literary criticism makes it an interesting and funny read but the poetry itself is also beautiful and Nabokov has a way with words like none other…
“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.
And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate
Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate:
Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass
Hang all the furniture above the grass,
And how delightful when a fall of snow
Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so
As to make chair and bed exactly stand
Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!”
Also recommend reading poetry out loud (to get a feel for its rhythmic nature) and subscribing to the poetry newsletter of The Paris Review they send you a poem every day!!
Apr 1, 2024
I don’t usually finish them, but I keep one beside my bed so I can read a random poem first thing each morning. I like to get the words in my brain before anything else.
Mar 20, 2025
Including this one I wrote about Keller from The Idiot by Dostoevsky
I found myself really drawn to him, and not just because we almost have the same name.
Feb 25, 2025
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and u’ll meet a bunch of cool people willing to welcome u into a new culture and eventually u get access to a whole nother world of brainrot and giggles
3d ago
my favorite publication it’s just the perfect mix of highbrow and lowbrow every read is delicious i <3 u LARB
4d ago
by Maeve Brennan. she’s an Irish journalist who wrote for the New Yorker and is remembered for her contributions to the "Talk of the Town" section 1954–1981. she’s a subtly iconic, stoic diva; she sees everything and only those who need see her do so. she is not a wallflower, but rather and expert in selective camouflage, allowing her to make sketches out of words that capture the essence of the city through the eyes of a longtime-resident-but-permanently-foreign Irishwoman in New York.
Jan 15, 2025