There are some men I know who...

February 17, 2014 #

There are some men I know who are teaching and writing who are single fathers. But not many. Most of them have these great devoted wives, some version of Vera Nabokov. Writers all need Vera. She famously taught some of his classes. He would say, ‘My assistant will be teaching the next class,’ and, apparently, when Nabokov gave the lectures, he needed notes. When Vera gave the lectures, no notes.

—Lorrie Moore on the difficulty of teaching and writing simultaneously, and the great help of Veras.

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