Essays & Reading Guides
Essays & Reading Guides
Essays
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