Minisode Thirty-nine: Cities
Literary Friction
The City of Lies
"I feel like I know the city fairly well, and of course I don't. I've read about it in these old novels," he says. "My mental version of Moscow is basically Bilghakov's." He adds: "It's kind of like wild historical place that doesn't have any concept of what contemporary Moscow is like" The writer also talks about his desire to visit Tehran as a literary fiction destination.
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