Sally Laird is a freelance writer and translator, currently teaching at the European Film College in Denmark.

Named a 1999 Outstanding Academic Book by Choice

"This splendid collection offers unusually engrossing interviews with a diverse selection of contemporary Russian prosaists....[Laird's] prose is crisp and lucid, her translations fully idiomatic...the interviews brim with unexpected and eloquent insights...thought-provoking reading...all of the interviews contain impressive riches...All general and academic collections."--Choice

"This series of conversations with writers, who are not yet as well known in the West as they might be, offers a fascinating insight into the beliefs and attitudes of the Russian generations after Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn."--Times Literary Supplement