Episode NINE of This Is My Favourite Thing with Charlie Walsh investigates the mystery of Vladimir Nabokov's infinitely layered mystery-box of a novel, the 999-line poem Pale Fire.

 

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962) https://www.penguin.com.au/books/pale-fire-9780141185262

Pale Fire: poem https://genius.com/John-francis-shade-pale-fire-a-poem-in-four-cantos-annotated

Nabokov's "Pale Fire": The Magic of Artistic Discovery by Brian Boyd https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7t9zq