Season 3, Episode 7 – L. Bordetsky-Williams with Guest Host Alina Adams
In Season 3, Episode 7 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast, guest host and HTF author Alina Adams chats with L. Bordetsky-Williams, author of Forget Russia. During the conversation, Adams and Bordetsky-Williams talk candidly about their families’ histories in Soviet Russia and the improbable notion of returning to the Soviet Union from America. They also talk about their thoughts on cultural appropriation, Jewish identity in Russia, and the reasons Bordetsky-Williams choose fiction instead of nonfiction to tell her family’s story. It is a great conversation and you don’t want to miss it!
About the Author
L. Bordetsky-Williams (aka Lisa Williams) grew up in New York City. Forget Russia is her debut novel published by Tailwinds Press, December 2020. Forget Russia was chosen as an Editors' Choice Book by the Historical Novel Society. She is also the author of The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf (Greenwood Press, 2000) and has been inspired by both of these towering authors. In 2005, she published a book of creative nonfiction, Letters to Virginia Woolf (Hamilton Books). She is also a poet and has published three poetry chapbooks: Sky Studies (Finishing Line Press), The Eighth Phrase (Porkbelly Press), and In the Early Morning Calling (Finishing Line Press). She is a Professor of English and Literary Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
