Sovietica: An Interview with Caroline Clark
Sovetica grew slowly over many years. It started back when I was living in Moscow in the early 2000s, Andrei showed me some stereo slides he had made in the late ‘80s. I talk about them at the end of the book. They fascinated me. How you peer into the viewer and look into these pictures of the past. You have to hold them up to the light and then they come alive. Then there was his way of telling stories about growing up: I was again fascinated — this time by the ease and fluency with which he spoke.
Rowena Macdonald interviews Caroline Clark, author of Sovietica.
My Love Life
I haven’t had time to shower since last night and I can still taste her in my mouth and feel her sweat and saliva like a fine layer over my body. I don’t want her to die. I want to look after her until her scars have healed and her skin is smooth all over. I keep reminding myself that sex always plays this trick the morning after, but nevertheless I am still amazed by the tenderness of feeling in my heart.
By Sam Mills.