[joaorico]

I suppose it's quite off-topic, but some weeks ago I read a small book by Mary Gaitskill, the writer of the piece.

It's called "Lost Cat".

I highly recommend it. Ironically, it might be an approximate opposite of Pale Fire. It's very short, with simple yet beautiful prose, filled with intense, raw emotions.

[everybodyknows]

On-topic enough. Gaitskill writing previously on Pale Fire (in another context):

https://unherd.com/2022/06/the-death-of-literature/

The link contains audio of her reading from a favorite passage of the novel.