"Debtor" in Ecotone's Migration Issue

Ecotone has just published my short story "Debtor" as part of their Migration issue. (My piece prominently features a stolen raccoon puppet.) There is goodness galore in there: Molly Antopol, Jim Shepard, Angela Carter, Luis Alberto Urrea, a gorgeous Magritte-ish cover. Everyone please buy 500 copies!

NaboPop: Nabokov's Pale Fire in Spike Jonze's Her

The Vintage paperback edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is visible just above and to the right of Joaquin Phoenix in this frame of Spike Jonze's new movie Her (screen capture below totally stolen from Zemb.la; thanks to the Nabokv-L forum for the tip):

See also: Nabokov's Ada pops up just behind Paul Rudd in I Love You, Man.

Sighting: Pnin in Best American Stories 2013

Elizabeth Tallent on her story "Wilderness," and on professor types in fiction (as seen in the back matter of 2013's Best American Short Stories): "Maybe it mattered less, but there was also the grain-of-sand/oyster vexation of fictional professors' almost always being assholes, with Pnin as the fantastically lovable exception to the rule. In fiction, professor is predatory, student is prey. This ironclad dyad goes to bed without caring much about the intricacy, anxiety, and comedy of teaching. So there's room" (337).

The same anthology also features Lorrie Moore's "Referential," a tribute/take-off of Nabokov's "Signs and Symbols."

Awesome Nabokov Sighting: "The Leonardo" / Structure as Orbiting Bodies

Nabokov's story viewed as planets orbiting in relation to each other! This neat illustration comes from Jeff Vandermeer's stunning Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction.