Border crossings frequently conjure up pictures of bureaucratic
hassles or fleeing refugees. For writer and translator
Wortsman
, though, border crossings are a chance for him to step out of his New York skin and become somebody else.
Listen to Wortsman in this 5-minute mp3 talk about a Russian bathhouse two hours outside of St. Petersburg where he crossed over the border of his everyday self into a world of elsewhere. Read the transcript.
This episode is part of Bookpod, a weekly podcast about writers of lasting value.
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