Excerpts from a recent email inviting me to join a literary trip to Cuba led by Lee Gutkind, founder of Creative Nonfiction magazine: I am writing to…
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That whole "shit X people say" meme trend has come and gone, but I just found some hand-written notes I must have written at some…
A Facebook friend who’d moved to the U.S. from St. Petersburg in his thirties recently posted a frustrated status update in which he complained about…
I formally introduce for your internet distraction and pleasure: The Weekly Russia Roundup of Humor Welkome to my new weekly internet column (see, I spelled…
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I can't stop laughing. Not good. Seen first here.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, English Russia is one of my favorite blogs evar. Their two most recent posts really reaffirm…
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