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09 Nov

In her homeland, in my homeland

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...
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02 Dec

Memories from the time of Stalin

Book Reviews | Russia | Soviet Union
I am reading interviews about Soviet repression, which Russia Memorial  (with assistance from Orlando Figes) had gathered. Memorial, controversial in Russia,  which Vladimir Putin has now suppressed (the documentation is...
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12 Mar

Towards the next novel

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...
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25 Jun

This Web Log is about…

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...