Vladimir Nabokov

outside the DM Plaza Motel, Ithaca, New York, 1958. (Carl Mydans)












 “A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.” 

― Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

John Ashbery

  The New Spirit (excerpt) I thought that if I could put it all down, that would be one way. And next the thought came to me that to leave a...