Publishing
Thirteen Coats, A Translation (from Russian)
Thirteen Coats, A Translation Serge Kotlar and I (Yay!, Merrill, Wisconsin) translated Thirteen Coats from Russian to English  as research for the next book in The Long...
The Executioner’s Son, Suzdal, NE Russia, early 1950s
On a spring day in 1953 on Illian Meadow across the Kamenka River and beneath the walls of the Suzdahl Kremlin, Â Danton Larionov, son of the NKVD executioner and a...
Arriving in Rovinj, Croatia, November 2013,
Travel Notes Collage, Rovinj Patrice and I have settled in Rovinj, Croatia, until at least 15 April 2014. The first apartment we rented (12th century plague house)...
Book Review, Hot Country and The Star of Istanbul by Robert Olen Butler:
While traveling these last two weeks via Istanbul, Venice and Trieste to Rovinj, Croatia I have been rereading Robert Olen Butler's Christopher Marlowe Cobb novel,  Hot Country  and its follow-on,...
Arriving Rovinj
Patrice reported our travels from the United States through Venice here and here. We stayed in Venice five days. Â Venice, even stormy, flooded and windswept, was charming, warm and inviting....
Leaving Madison
We are leaving Madison. Â Tonight we board Turkish Airlines flight 6 for Istanbul, Turkey, thence to Venice for a few days and onto Rovinj, Croatia. (more…)
Leaving Boulder
Flatirons, Boulder, Colorado Tomorrow, the Rocky Mountains eastern slope and the Boulder, Colorado, Flatirons, disappears.  I am glancing over my task list, which in the nature of task...
Ледоход (Spirit Falls in Russian)
Ледоход Spirit Falls - Ледоход My long time, Merrill, Wisconsin, friend Serge Kotlar has been translating my Cold War inter-connected series of novels into Russian. The...
