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A Year in Reading: Jacqueline Krass

This year I read not one, but two books about or by famous Russian male writers’ wives. If there are more of them, which I am certain there are, I would like to read those, too. The first one was , and I found it via an with the writer, , in the . She was discussing how difficult it was to write a book about someone who worked so hard to excise herself

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