“Цепь” Юрия Олеши

“Lady-Maid” / Aleksandr Pushkin

“Das Manifest des Glücklichen Arbeitslosen”

“Der Verdächtige” / Jurek Becker
Fear, the state, and playing the part.

“Сны Чанга” Ивана Бунина
Bunin’s late dreams in Odessa.

The Adventures of Augie March / Saul Bellow

Poetics / Aristotle
I can’t imitate somebody who’s read it anymore.

Yes, Emily Dickinson had no idea what uses her little poem would have. I’m not the first, and I probably won’t be the last…

A workshop (at Riverside Goddard Community Center)

The Adventures of Augie March / Saul Bellow

Он был философ. Выслушав благодарность Остапа, писатель потряс головой и пошел к себе дописывать рассказ. Будучи человеком пунктуальным, он твердо решил каждый день обьязательно писать по рассказу. Это решение он выполнял с прилежностью первого ученика. По-видимому, он вдохновлялся мыслью, что раз бумага существует, то должен же на ней кто-нибудь писать.

Золотой теленок Ильфа и Петрова

Золотой теленок Ильфа и Петрова
Вьюга шуток…

Feast of Love / Charles Baxter
What a wonderful book. But I feel behind having read it now. I love Baxter’s many voices. And, this is my homeland, this setting. I kind of feel like Harry is too self-consciously Jewish. I know there’s a lot of anxiety about portraying a Jewish person or any ethnicity the author’s not a part of. Harry’s also my favorite. I’m really vulnerable right now, so this is all sounding pat.

States of Motion / Laura Hulthen Thomas
My interview here.

The Adventures of Augie March / Saul Bellow
I love Bellow’s style, even though I can’t read it at the end of the day, when my brain’s used up.

Лавр Евгения Водолазкина

The Life and Times of Michael K. / J.M. Coetzee
K.

Feast of Love / Charles Baxter
“You think that what I’ve just told you is an anecdote. But really it isn’t. It’s my whole life. It’s the only story I have.”
“We live in a large city, populated only by ourselves.”

Second Hand Time / Svetlana Alexievich

Here’s the first session of my first workshop with New York Writers Workshop at the Sheepshead Bay Public Library. We’ll be discussing stories of immigration, how truths can become enhanced with storytelling techniques. Поговорим по-русски и по-английски.