The Russians Are Coming

[Peg Herring]

Short post due to the fact that a Russian publisher has requested one of my MSs. It raises all sorts of questions, but right now I'm just concentrating on a timely and professional presentation.

One might wonder about Russians reading Elizabethan mysteries, but my experience has been that they (along with many other countries) have a much better grasp of world literature than most Americans. Russian exchange students I taught in high school had read more American lit than the vast majority of American students, and had a grounding in the great writers of other societies as well. Granted, exchange students are often the cream of the crop, but it was embarrassing to me to be so limited myself when it came to Russian writers. Once we'd discussed Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and maybe two others, I ran out of names, and I was supposed to be teaching them!