Signs and Symbols podcast

Be sure to check out the New Yorker Fiction podcast, with Mary Gaitskill reading Nabokov's story "Signs and Symbols."

http://www.newyorker.com/online/podcasts/fiction

Signs and Symbols is my favorite Nabokov story too, probably the most perfect story I've read. To me, like Pnin and Lolita, and unlike Ada, for the most part, it manages to be both fully clever and deep, and fully human and affecting.

Thanks for the link.

If this is the story I think it is (with the jam preserves), it is excellent and heartbreaking. A contender for the "makes me want to cry" thread.

I'm not into podcasts, but you made me want to re-read the story today...

Yes, the preserves. I remember that Nabokov: The American Years found the progenitor of those jam preserves in N's real life.

The podcast includes discussion of the story too. Worth it, imho.

Hey that's a pretty neat podcast. They got a Borges story too.