![]() ![]() I also really love Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. I’ve been reading a lot by the Belarusian nonfiction author Svetlana Alexievich. ![]() PHILLIPS: There’s a big Tolstoy-Dostoyevsky divide and I’m on the Tolstoy side. I had thought of “The Call of the Wild” as a kind of kids’ book, and I was interested in how strange and violent it was.īOOKS: Who are your favorite Russian writers? Montgomery’s “Anne of Green Gables.” I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” again, which is one of my favorite books of all time. I read a lot of Sherlock Holmes and loved it. I ended up reading public domain books off of Project Gutenberg. Also, after a day of speaking Russian I wanted to read English. There were lots of bookstores selling Russian-language books, but my Russian wasn’t strong enough to read a novel without a dictionary. PHILLIPS: I was there in 2011-2012 and then again in 2015. BOOKS: Were there bookstores in Kamchatka when you were there? ![]()
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