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About meRetired editor living in the Pioneer Valley (Massachusetts).

About my libraryLarge holdings in languages, Russian, classics, travel, history, reference, poetry, literature, Africa, science fiction, Vietnam, music, &c. These days added books tend to be Russian, since I'm reading mainly Russian literature.

GroupsAmerican Civil War, Baseball, Fans of Russian authors, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Language, Maps and Atlases, Nabokov!, Proust, Russian books and language, Slavic Languages

Favorite authorsAlla Gorbunova, Anna Akhmatova, John Ashbery, Viktor Astafyev, W. H. Auden, Charles Baudelaire, Samuel Beckett, Andrei Bely, John Berryman, Paul Blackburn, Yves Bonnefoy, Jorge Luis Borges, Joseph Brodsky, Yuri Buida, Ivan Bunin, Basil Bunting, Lewis Carroll, Hayden Carruth, Constantine Petrou Cavafy, Anton Chekhov, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Creeley, Avram Davidson, Helen DeWitt, Emily Dickinson, Philip K. Dick, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Lawrence Durrell, George Eliot, Venedikt Erofeev, William Faulkner, Elena Ferrante, Penelope Fitzgerald, Robert Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, Robert Frost, Gaito Gazdanov, Jean-Luc Godard, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Vasily Grossman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tessa Hadley, Dashiell Hammett, Anthony Hecht, Ernest Hemingway, Aleksandr Herzen, Marshall G. S. Hodgson, James Hogg, Alan Hollinghurst, Homer, James Joyce, Valentin Kataev, Robert Kelly, Walt Kelly, Hugh Kenner, Daniil Charms, Peter Kropotkin, R. A. Lafferty, Ann Leckie, Nikolai Leskov, Christopher Logue, Audre Lorde, Hugh MacDiarmid, Vladimir Makanin, Osip Mandelstam, Olivia Manning, Hilary Mantel, Irina Mashinskaya, Herman Melville, Marianne Moore, Vladimir Nabokov, Yuri Nagibin, Lorine Niedecker, Patrick O'Brian, Flann O'Brien, Alexander Ostrovsky, Boris Pasternak, Ann Patchett, Viktor Pelevin, Saint-John Perse, Aleksey Pisemsky, Andrey Platonov, Ezra Pound, Richard Powers, Marcel Proust, Alexander Pushkin, Raymond Queneau, Valentin Rasputin, Mary Renault, Charles Reznikoff, Dorothy M. Richardson, Theodore Roethke, Frank Samperi, Sappho, Giorgos Seferis, Victor Serge, William Shakespeare, Zadie Smith, Sasha Sokolov, Vladimir Sorokin, Laurence Sterne, Wallace Stevens, Tom Stoppard, Arkady Strugatsky, Theodore Sturgeon, Vladimir Tendryakov, James Tiptree Jr., Leo Tolstoy, Yuri Trifonov, Anthony Trollope, Marina Tsvetaeva, Ivan Turgenev, Mark Twain, A. F. Vel'tman, Richard Wilbur, Jonathan Williams, William Carlos Williams, Ellen Willis, P. G. Wodehouse, Gene Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Louis Zukofsky (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresTroubadour Books

Favorite listsA Ukraine Reading List

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Real nameStephen Dodson

LocationHadley, MA

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Member sinceSep 5, 2005

Currently readingWar and peace by Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi
The Other Paris by Luc Sante
Белая гвардия by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber
Putin’s People by Catherine Belton