"Well, I happened to have circled Nabakov. Yknow, the architect behind not just Lolita but Pnin and Pale Fire; the greatest 'American' prose writer since Melville etc."
"I've mostly been a Nabokov f*g when it comes to Russian lit, and while I love that weird old butterfly fetishist, it's cool reading something a little less arch and playful, something that's very straightforward about its characters and story."