San Francisco Bay Area journalist Molly Colin is writing a memoir,
Russiaremixed, about living in Nizhny Novgorod, a city formerly
closed to foreigners, for a year (1997-1998) with her baby and
husband. She blogs at russiaremixed.wordpress.com.
Let’s say I’m on a French train enroute to meet my boyfriend, a prominent French writer. I open that day’s copy of Le Monde and there’s a controlling, erotic story…