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The poet Robert Creeley reads at the Theatrical Museum during SLS 2002.

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Moscow poet Dmitry Prigov reads at the Anna Akhmatova Museum during SLS 2002.

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St. Petersburg poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko reads at the Anna Akhmatova Museum during SLS 2002.

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St. Petersburg poet Elena Shvartz reads at the Anna Akhmatova Museum during SLS 2002.

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Geniusauthor Dave Eggers reads from his latest novel You Shall Know Our Velocityat SLS 2002.

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The SLS Promo Video by Juan Fontanive

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Deborah Treisman, New Yorker Fiction Editor, in conversation with SLS Co-Director Mikhail Iossel at the Nabokov House in 2004.

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Padgett Powell reading at the Anna Akhmatova Museum during SLS 2004.

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Editor Binyavanga Wainaina reading at the Bukvoed Bookstore during SLS 2004.

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Moscow poet Sergei Gandlevsky reads at the Anna Akhmatova Museum during SLS 2002.


Interviews:

Will Hermes, Spin magazine
Sr. Contributing Writer

Josip Novakovich

Aimee Bender

Work by SLS Participants:

Prose

Gestures of Strangeness by Stacy Bierlein

Eyes of a Fresco by James Boobar

Skipper by Harry Brown

Fast Forward by Jay Davidson

The Girl in the Station by Arthur Ford

Petersburg by Ellen W. Kaplan

The Real Wade Nicholson by Jamie Kembrey

The Short Corridor by Amy Pandya

One Was Called Tokyo
and the Other Was Called Heaven
by Amy F. Vyas

The Dweeb?s Redemption by James Wallenstein

Before the Kazan Cathedral by Liz Webster 

The Good China Monologue by Joel Drazner

Poetry

The Russian Lovers Next Door by Steven Lovett

Coming Apart by Hillery Stone

 
 
   

SLS Literary:

Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States - A Collection of Nonfiction essays by contemporary Russian writers describing their views of the U.S. Edited by SLS Directors Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker the book features writing by many past and former SLS faculty.

The Unfinished City by Mikhail Iossel, SLS Program Director - Meditations on St. Petersburg and the Tercentennial.

Denis Johnson and Ed Hirsch in a roundtable discussion moderated by Mikhail Iossel at the Theatre Museum during SLS 2000.

New Russian Writing:

Scholia by Aleksandre Skidan, translated from the Russian by Genya Turovsky

St. Petersburg Art:


The SLS Gallery of St. Petersburg Art

Photography:

James Boobar

 

Arthur Jonauskas

 

On SLS/Press Clippings:

The Wall Street Journal Europe, "Setting the scene: writer's workshops" (01/13/2006) "The magic of that workshop was that we were focused on telling stories, in a place where some of the best stories ever had been written."

The Moscow Times, "The Write Stuff"

The Philadelphia Inquirer, "A City of Writers That Still Inspires" (08/06/2003) "SLS...occupies a singular place among hundreds of literary conferences and workshops..."

Book Magazine, "Peter's Panorama" (10/2003)

The St. Petersburg Times, "Literature: It's Serious and Fun" (06/20/2003)

"Russia, A Land For Lovers of Literature" - Carolyn Howard-Johnson reviews SLS and St. Petersburg in her column for Myshelf.com.

Hobart, "An Interview with Aimee Bender" (08/2002) .

The St. Petersburg Times, "Bringing Two Countries Together" (06/21/2002)

Sweet Fancy Moses, Chris DeBolt chronicles SLS 2002 (06/21/2002) "I continued up and down Nevsky well into the early hours..."

Poets & Writers, SLS Co-Director Jeff Parker on The Modern St. Petersburg Literary Scene (11/2001)

The St. Petersburg Times, "Writers Revel in the White Nights" (06/26/2001)

Slate.com, George Saunders chronicles SLS 2000 (06/19/2000) "The hole in question was a grated entry to a basement, right out of The Hobbit..."