Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Daily Dose
From The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, By Elif Batuman
WARM
"Warm at last, I spent the rest of the evening sitting on my cot, sipping the icy beer and reading Anna Ioannovna: Evgeny Anisimov's definitive biography of the empress who decided to marry her jesters in a house made of ice."
From The House of Ice
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Elif Batuman,
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Essays,
Evgeny Anisimov,
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Russian Literature
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