An interview with the author about his new novel, “The Betrayers.”
“Russian writers are like Russian people: there’s not a lot of bullshit.”
Q&A with the author of “Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel” and “Petropolis”
Q&A with the author of “A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York”
“Russian culture tends to go soulful and deep much more quickly than American culture.”
“I was the most Republican kid on the planet. At age 11 I had membership in the NRA.”
Talking to the ‘Dissident Gardens’ author about Brooklyn, teenagers, and iconoclastic grandmothers