Ludmilla Petrushevskaya at the Russian Samovar, NYC November 6th

[bela shayevich]

Snob Magazine presents

A Writer's Cabaret

An evening of song with Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

November 6, 2009, 8PM
Russian Samovar
256 West 52 Street, NYC

PRESS CONTACT: Bela Shayevich (office:718 210 3639, cell: 847 494
9011, bshayevich at gmail.com)

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya is one of the most highly acclaimed Russian
authors working today. Her brand new collection of stories, There Once
Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby (Penguin Books),
has just made the uppermost “Highbrow Brilliant” quadrant of New York
Magazine’s Approval Matrix, and the title story was featured in the
New Yorker. But little do her U.S. fans know that, back home,
Petrushevskaya is also an accomplished, quirky and unique cabaret
singer.

Now, thanks to the efforts of Moscow’s Snob Magazine, she is taking
her act on the road to NYC. "A Writer's Cabaret" is a show conceived,
written, and performed by the author herself. Petrushevskaya, who is
71 and a classically trained singer, will sing a selection of classics
from the European cabaret, including  her own Russian versions of such
songs as "Lily Marlene" and "Ma Vie en Rose.” There could be no better
setting for it than
the Russian Samovar, whose bohemian air and vodka infusions have long
made it a favorite destination for writers and bon vivants of all
stripes. Editor and novelist Keith Gessen, one of the translators of
the book, will also be on hand.

ABOUT THE BOOK
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby is a
collection of  Petrushevskaya's "bold" and "haunting" urban fairy
tales. It is the first of her works to be published by a major
American publishing house. These creepy, fantastical stories combine
the Russian tradition of the grotesque (think Gogol) with astute
observations of the bleakness of Soviet and post-Soviet society.

ABOUT SNOB MAGAZINE
The knowingly titled, politically independent Snob, described in the
Stateside press as a “cross between Visionaire and Monocle,” is a
format-busting magazine that publishes both the finest Russian authors
and original pieces commissioned to top-tier Western journalists. Its
unique web site, www.snob.ru, also functions as an invitation-only
private arts club that stages “offline” events for its 400+ members in
Moscow, London and New York City.

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