Category: Vladimir Nabokov

Dreams are boring. On the list of tedious conversation topics, they fall somewhere between the five-day forecast and golf. As for writing about them, even Henry James, whos seldom accused of playing to the cheap seats, had a rule: Tell a dream, lose a reader. I can remember when I accepted that my own unconscious…

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to write about writing. Having a couple of novels behind me, along with a dozen short stories, hundreds of pages of clickbait headlines (which I am not particularly proud of), as well as a number of academic texts, I know a thing or two about the…

Dreams are boring. On the list of tedious conversation topics, they fall somewhere between the five-day forecast and golf. As for writing about them, even Henry James, whos seldom accused of playing to the cheap seats, had a rule: Tell a dream, lose a reader. I can remember when I accepted that my own unconscious…

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to write about writing. Having a couple of novels behind me, along with a dozen short stories, hundreds of pages of clickbait headlines (which I am not particularly proud of), as well as a number of academic texts, I know a thing or two about the…