Our special guest is writer/scholar Yelena Furman, who guides us through the richness of today's Russian-language literature, with a particular look at women's literature both in Russia (and environs) and in the western diaspora. We talk about Elena Chizhova, Liudmila Petrushevskaia, Liudmila Ultskaia, Ksenia Buksha, Alisa Ganieva, Svetlana Alexievich, Olga Zilberbourg and more. Plus, the humor embedded in the Russian language and how Gary Shteyngart became the avatar of Russian-Jewish literature in America. For more Russian authors/titles, go here: https://puncturedlines.wordpress.com/2020/02/06/notable-books-russian-titles-in-english-translation-2009-2019/

Music attribution: “Sunday Smooth" by Scott Buckley, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License - www.scottbuckley.com.au.