Maud Newton interviews Keith Gessen

at her blog, on the topic of the prize-winning book he translated into English, Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (now out in paperback). I've got this book and am very much wanting to read it only somehow it's never the day you sit down in the evening and say to yourself, "Oh, now I want to read a lovely book about a nuclear disaster...."