Essays & Reading Guides
Essays & Reading Guides
ESSAYS
The End of a Beautiful Era
Versopolis: European Review of Poetry, Books and Culture
How I moved to the U.S. from Soviet Russia
The Independent, UK
Keeping Literature Alive in Soviet Russia
Waterstones, UK
Clashing Cultures of the Past and Present
Foyles Bookshop, UK
Cream Cheese and Mushrooms: Russian and American Food
Female First, UK
An Absorbing and Elegiac Look Behind the Iron Curtain
Off the Shelf, Simon & Schuster
International Women’s Day in Russia
Windmill Books
Write Start
Biographile
What they’re reading: Elena Gorokhova
Book Page
Book Q&As
Deborah Kalb’s Blog
Growing up in Soviet Russia, moving to the US, dealing with a Soviet mother, writing and so much more: Elena Gorokhova talks about her blazingly entertaining memoir, Russian Tattoo
Caroline Leavitt’s Blog
From Russia With Lies
The New York Times
How I Write: Elena Gorokhova
The Daily Beast
Beyond Banned: Books That Survived The Censors
NPR Books
Cream Cheese and Other Mysteries: Suitcase in hand, an ex-Soviet arrives in the strangest of strange lands, New Jersey
New Jersey Monthly
READING GUIDES