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Essays & Reading Guides

Essays & Reading Guides


Essays

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/books/review/holodomor-the-lost-year-katherine-marsh-winterkill-marsha-forchuk-skrypuch.html

Russian Books That Outlived the Censors: A Reading List

The Story Behind A Train to Moscow

New Voices: Melissa Fu, Tammye Huf, Elena Gorokhova & Samantha Greene Woodruff

Russian Tattoo is among Fish Out of Water Stories about adjusting to a new culture

Immigrant Students Provide Lessons in Perseverance

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

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

Reading Guide for A Mountain of Crumbs

Reading Guide for Russian Tattoo

Reading Guide for A Train to Moscow

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