This story makes me want to read more Nabokov.

It’s called “Signs and Symbols,” or “Symbols and Signs,” and I heard about it from this amazing podcast the New Yorker puts out, wherein the fiction editor discusses a short story published some time ago with another writer, who reads it. This one was picked by Mary Gaitskill, herself a talented writer, who has this amazing reading voice. And hearing them discuss it was really cool, as was just hearing the simplicity of language.

Not everything on the podcast has been good — I really disliked Junot Diaz’s way of reading — but almost everything.