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by Robert | Jun 25, 2011 | Deception, Publishing, Russia, Soviet Union

The purpose of this web site is to make sense of liars whom I’ve lived and worked among, against, and for in my life. There are moments when I shake with rage at the memory of trust broken; as well I quiver with shame at the memory of breaking trust. We deceive...

Towards the next novel

by Robert | Mar 12, 2011 | Book Reviews, Deception, Russia

On reading War and Peace (Tolstoi), On War (Clausewitz) and War (Sun Tsu) March 15, 2011 In writing my next novel “Wounded,” I have been thinking how to create the eminence grise, Alexander Soroka, is a disillusioned Bolshevik Russian Jew who had had a...

Memories from the time of Stalin

by Robert | Dec 2, 2010 | Book Reviews, Russia, Soviet Union

I am reading interviews about Soviet Repression Orlando Figes [ http://www.orlandofiges.com/familyHistory.php ] with the assistance of Russian Memorial had gathered. It is about as sad as it gets. Memorial, controversial in Russia, is both an organization and an...

In her homeland, in my homeland

by Robert | Nov 9, 2010 | Book Reviews, Wisconsin

On 1 October I served as a Wisconsin Book Festival usher for Kao Kalia Yang, http://www.kaokaliayang.com/ a 28-year-old passion-filled Hmong woman born in one of the post-Vietnam refugee camps in Thailand. This is an exceptional young woman. As part of a larger...

History 419, 42 years later

by Robert | Nov 2, 2010 | Soviet Union, Wisconsin

September 7, 2010 A clap of thunder ricochets down Park Street in the space between the Mosse Humanities Building and Chadbourne Hall. Winds off Lake Mendota drive sheets of cold rain upon students in flip-flops and T-shirts, who screech and laugh, excited this first...

Spirit Falls as an Electronic Book

by Robert | Jul 21, 2010 | Publishing, Soviet Union

Spirit Falls is now published as an ebook in multiple-formats I went to Colorado with four goals; the first to write 10,000 new novel words (succeeded) and the second was to convert Spirit Falls to electronic book format (did that too; read on). In the process of...