The Journey of a Musical Émigré: On Inna Faliks’s “Weight in the Fingertips”
Herb Randall reviews Inna Faliks’s “Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage.”
Herb Randall’s first short story, “Pictures of Galina,” was published in Apofenie. His writing has also been featured at Punctured Lines, On the Seawall, and STAT®REC. He lives in northern New Hampshire.
Herb Randall reviews Inna Faliks’s “Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage.”
Herb Randall listens close to Irina Mashinski’s “The Naked World,” a hybrid work chronicling the Russian-American poet’s journey towards freedom.
Herb Randall finds much to like in “Two Big Differences,” a novel by Ian Ross Singleton.
Herb Randall plunges into “Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour,” a memoir of art, imprisonment, and emigration by Yelena and Galina Lembersky.