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“I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend. I go through phases. For a while I was rereading the Russians quite a bit, and then I thought: Well, there’s a time issue here, I better stop this.” (Elizabeth Strout - By the Book - NYTimes.com)
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"These women made profound sacrifices for the sake of their husbands’ vocation. Natalya Solzhenitsyn, for example, spent eighteen years secluded in “a zone of quiet” in Vermont, assisting Solzhenitsyn fourteen hours a day; “people might say it’s a convict’s life, but we are happy.” What’s more, the glamour that befell their husbands never touched them. Dostoevsky was a celebrity, but his wife Anna went about in rags (or rather, she stayed home)."
Yelena Akhtiorskaya Reviews Alexandra Popoff’s “The Wives” | The New Republic
Timed well for Leo Tolstoy’s birthday, Yelena Akhtiorskaya reviews a new book about the wives of the Russians.
We have copies of Agriculture Reader #5 on the lit mag cart with fiction from Yelena! A steal—the magazine is hand-made—at $10.
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