City-pick St Petersburg, ed. Heather Reyes, Marina Samsonova and James Rann (Oxygen Books, 2012) The city-pick series of anthologies of city writing has turned its attention to St Petersburg, producing a thoroughly enjoyable collection that made me want to revisit old favourites and seek out some very interesting-looking texts (particularly non-Russian ones) that I hadn’t […]
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Review: St Petersburg city-pick
Posted by Sarah Young on December 2, 2012
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2012/12/02/review-st-petersburg-city-pick/
BASEES 2012 highlights
I was quite busy with committee business during the BASEES conference, but did manage to attend a few panels, and want to pick out a few highlights from what everyone I spoke to agreed was a very stimulating and enjoyable weekend. A Monday morning panel on Gulag literature may not be everybody’s idea of fun, […]
Posted by Sarah Young on April 2, 2012
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2012/04/02/basees-2012-highlights/
An Interview with Robert Chandler
The Road, Robert Chandler’s new collection of translations of Vasily Grossman’s short stories and essays, will be published by MacLehose Press on 14th October 2010. On Monday 4th October at 6.30pm, he will be giving a talk about Grossman at Pushkin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, to mark the publication. Here I talk to Robert about Grossman’s writing […]
Posted by Sarah Young on October 1, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/10/01/an-interview-with-robert-chandler/