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Russia's Agents in the DreamscapeSome years ago, I had a vivid two-punch dream, in which I felt I was being recruited into a Russian intelligence agency. I was lucid—that is, aware I was in a dream—from the beginning. Standing in a hallway with a crowd of other people like me, waiting for whatever was supposed…
The Work Within the RealI’ve got a few submissions for the “novel” project I described here last month. I’m not quite sure what to do with them because I don’t yet know what format the project will assume. The image I have in mind is that of a magazine: a long interview is broken into parts (“cont. page…
Sketches for a Substack novelThis post is a further development of the idea I first described in Russia’s Psychotic Break. It started as a round-about way to process Russia’s war with Ukraine, the world, and itself—because I wasn’t able to write about it plainly—but has since evolved into something else.
