fun quasi-Slavist summer reading

[Kristi Groberg]

At 09:58 AM 6/2/2008, you wrote:
>Dear colleagues,
>
>I want to recommend a recent novel by an author from my neighborhood 
>-- its heroine is a beginning Russian professor, working on a 
>(made-up) nineteenth-century novelist and his intriguing wife.  It 
>adds some new twists to the body of novels about Russian 
>professors... maybe suggests a comparative AATSEEL panel topic?
>
>Rachel Pastan, LADY OF THE SNAKES (Harcourt, 2008)


Thanks for this, Sibelan.  A few years back (okay ,more than a few), 
I read and enjoyed Karen Karbo's Tresspassers Welcome Here, about a 
west coast Russian Department and its graduate students.  It's 
hysterically funny.  Kris

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