Marisa Robertson-Textor is a writer based in Brooklyn. She worked as a Russian-English translator in Moscow before receiving a Masters of International Affairs at Columbia University. The former research chief of Gourmet magazine, she has written about food, travel, and culture for The Los Angeles Times, The Advocate, O, Archaeology, and Whole Living, among other publications. Like the Finkles, she too believes that one is not a complete human being until one has read Tolstoy.
Marisa Robertson-Textor
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All Dovlatov’s Children:Recent Soviet Emigré Literature
To say that Russians love the late Soviet writer Sergei Dovlatov is like saying they love breathing. Born in 1941, Dovlatov worked as a prison guard and journalist before starting to “publish” short stories in the 1970s, via samizdat, the only avenue open at the time for writers who wanted to serve up their fiction […]
