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What’s a pathological optimist to do when all about her is despair?
I just read today’s New York Times opinion section, after which I dipped into the readers’ comments, as I always do. Despair, hopelessness, monumental depression — about us, the United States. Secession, too, had its proponents among my fellow readers, … Continue reading
Posted in Guns in the U.S. of A., Human rights, The Facts of Life, voting rights
Tagged "Pushkin Hills", Andrey Kurkov, Brown v Topeka, Chris Murphy, Jamelle Bouie, James Wood, Michelle Cottle, Michelle Goldberg, New York Times, Paul Krugman, secession, Sergei Dovlatov, The New Yorker, The Talk of the Town
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Want to write a memoir? Don’t read this quote
I have loved Russian literature for most of my life. Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Sergei Dovlatov. (Gogol scares me, as do Poe and Hoffmann. Reading any of the three of them is like being pulled into the imagination of a schizophrenic.) … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged Anna Karenina, Edgar Allen Poe, Ellen Kaye, ETA Hoffmann, First Love, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Tolstoy, Sergei Dovlatov, The Diary of A Superfluous Man
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