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December 1, 2008
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Irina Reyn



Irina Reyn
Writer Irina Reyn talks to Kurt about her recent novel "What Happened to Anna K"

by Kurt Andersen

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For her first novel, What Happened to Anna K., Reyn took Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and wrote a modern update set among Russian immigrants in Queens. A Soviet émigré who arrived in the U.S. at age seven, Reyn tells Kurt about how she still grapples with the Russian soul.


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