Read By: Francisco Goldman

The 92nd Street Y, New York · Aug 25, 2020 · 14m

Francisco Goldman on his selection: My reading is from Vladimir Nabokov's novel, Pnin. Timofey Pnin, Russian emigre professor at Wainsdell College somewhere in the Northeast, has belatedly just learned to drive, and has undertaken the drive to the summer house of the wealthy emigre Alexandr Petrovich Kukolnikov, otherwise known as Al Cook. There other emigre intellectuals, artists, liberals, etc, are gathered. Lonely Pnin, often a figure of fun, has sat down to relax a bit after trouncing his competitors in croquet, when he experiences one of those episodes of nervous or even cardiac unease…