Dispatches from the author of The Idiot
I write books slowly.
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I was born in Zaporizhzhia three years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. What followed was a learning curve. A Ukrainian killjoy with a PhD in Comparative Literature, I teach, curate cultural projects and write about Ukraine's resistance to Russia.
I write one essay a week about creative life, meaning, and what itโs actually like to be a working writer.
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