Monthly Archives: January 2013
Our new favorite book: The Way of the Dog, by Sam Savage, in bits
From the very beginning I found it difficult, debilitating and painful, to work for other people, with other people. As the years went by I found it increasingly difficult to work in the vicinity of other people, until that too became impossible. People recognized that I didn’t have a crowd, and they resented me for […]
Writers: Sam Savage
Entries from an Encyclopedia of A Life in Russia, via José Manuel Prieto
Operating under the pseudonym of Thelonius Monk, a refined but mostly aspirant Cuban witness to the final days of the Soviet imperium offers these clarificiations of several regional enigmas. Babionki (бабионки). There are, of course, women—or mujeres as I might prefer to call them—in Muscovy, but there are babionki, as well, and these latter are […]
Writers: Esther Allen, José Manuel Prieto