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		<title>New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mother – a World War II surgeon, the permanent chairman of the family Politburo she had installed in our Leningrad kitchen, and a mirror image of my Soviet Motherland – was lying in Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, hooked to an IV and an oxygen tank.  She had grown frail within a week or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elenagorokhova.com/2011/12/30/new-year/</link>
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		<title>From Russia With Shock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My NYT essay From Russia With Lies was translated into Russian by Inosmi, a Russian-language news website, where it received 399 comments, mostly registering outrage.  People who read it, just as Captain Louis Renault in the movie Casablanca, were shocked, shocked.  Clad in scuba gear, Vladimir Putin emerged from the Black Sea with two ancient [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elenagorokhova.com/2011/10/30/from-russia-with-shock/</link>
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		<title>From Russia With Lies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We hear so much about Vladimir Putin these days.  When he isn&#8217;t driving race cars and snowmobiles, he dives to the bottom of the Black Sea.  But something was off in that picture of the Russian prime minister wading out of the water with two ancient amphorae&#8230; Please check out my essay in the New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elenagorokhova.com/2011/10/21/from-russia-with-lies/</link>
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		<title>Sneakers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To do all this walking in Austin, Tx, I need a pair of sneakers, says Robert.  He points to the white and blue shoes he wears to walk to the university every morning.  Sneakers, he says, so I’ll know what to ask for when I get to a store. After peering into the windows of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elenagorokhova.com/2011/08/30/sneakers/</link>
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		<title>West Cork Literary Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cork greets us with corkscrew roads, or at least, they feel corkscrew because we’re driving on the wrong side, past the emerald fields blanketing soft hills dotted with cows and sheep.  West Cork Literary Festival is held in beautiful Bantry on the Bay, home to dolmen, blowholes, and Jeremy Irons.  The dolmen we’re shown is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elenagorokhova.com/2011/07/15/west-cork-literary-festival/</link>
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		<title>New Jersey and Millie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Millie presses me to her cotton t-shirt with the acronym ERA stitched in big red letters across the front.  She seems to have grown shorter and wider since August when I first met her, her graying hair boyish, her eyes smiling out of the net of wrinkles behind her glasses. In the evening, we sit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elenagorokhova.com/2011/06/23/new-jersey-and-millie/</link>
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		<title>Cardiology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in Russia, my mother, like everyone else, climbed 5 flights of stairs to get to a doctor in the 1980s because Leningrad cardiology clinic was located on the fifth floor of a building with no elevator.  By the time a doctor began to inflate the cuff around her arm, her blood pressure measured a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elenagorokhova.com/2011/05/19/cardiology/</link>
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		<title>Comments on Censorship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The comments to my NPR essay Beyond Banned: Books That Survived the Censors (http://www.npr.org/2011/03/30/133810460/beyond-banned-books-that-survived-the-censors) came from readers of different generations and different countries.  In 500 words it was impossible to explore censorship in any depth, but even this short foray into the subject led to a few interesting discussions. Even in this country, where freedom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elenagorokhova.com/2011/04/14/comments-on-censorship/</link>
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		<title>Canadian Bestseller List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you, Canada!  A Mountain of Crumbs was # 3 on the Globe and Mail nonfiction paperback bestseller list and # 9 on the Toronto Star reprint nonfiction bestseller list last week!  I am stunned.  I am elated.  I am so grateful. A Mountain of Crumbs has been on the Globe and Mail bestseller list [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elenagorokhova.com/2011/03/17/canadian-bestseller-list/</link>
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		<title>My mother just turned 97</title>
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		<link>http://elenagorokhova.com/2011/02/27/my-mother-just-turned-97/</link>
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