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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
http://whatarewritersreading.blogspot.com/2008/02/andrew-nagorski.html
Andrew Nagorski
Award-winning journalist Andrew Nagorski is a senior editor at Newsweek International. Previously the Newsweek bureau chief in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw and Berlin, he is the author of several books and has written for many publications.His latest book is the widely acclaimed The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II.Last week, I asked him what he was reading. His reply:
I have to confess that I’m still reading a lot about Russia. At a time when Putin’s Russia is once again claiming a special status and scorning the West and its concept of democracy, Nina Khrushcheva has written an extended meditation on one of that country’s great writers: Vladimir Nabokov. In Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics, the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev argues that today’s Russians could learn from Nabokov, whose writings show how to live “in a world with open borders, among different people, different countries, and different countries.” In other words, Nabokov was a truly modern man, someone who offers a much-needed antidote to the increasingly narrow outlook Russia’s current rulers.
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Read an excerpt from The Greatest Battle, and learn more about the writer and his work at Andrew Nagorski's website.--Marshal Zeringue
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