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the elephant box the elephant box skip to content home insurrectionist elephant box work about older posts june 27 2026 8 04 am throngs cheer novel max nemtsov who brought his immense talents to editing nonna s russian translation of my novel the insurrectionist generously plugs the book here a reminder max like the publisher freedom letters itself is a persona non grata in putin s russia before the book came out one of our sons said you know that if you publish with them you ll never be able to visit russia again i doubt that but i do know that many brave russian authors designers translators and others involved with the press would be risking imprisonment if they returned share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading leave a comment filed under uncategorized june 24 2026 3 52 pm author plugs the insurrectionist novel a friend has asked where she can find a brief video i made last year plugging my novel i am no longer on instagram so i am reposting it from nonna s account here view this post on instagram share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading leave a comment filed under uncategorized tagged as fiction insurrectionist novel russell working march 15 2026 5 04 pm rest in peace faithful warrior i just learned of the passing this month of john perkins a mississippi church leader and civil rights icon who was a friend of my parents born in 1930 john fled mississippi at 17 after a town marshal murdered his older brother but he courageously returned in 1960 to start a reconciliation ministry there i recall hearing his sometimes harrowing and always inspiring stories over coffee after dinner at our home in 1969 he tried to bail out protesters who had organized a boycott of white businesses in simpson county mississippi because of their refusal to hire blacks john told us and the linked story details how the cops beat him up kicking him all over the floor they cut his hair with dull scissors and stuck a fork up his nose the torture caused him to suffer a heart attack longer term the experience left him with ulcers and part of his stomach had to be removed continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading 2 comments filed under uncategorized tagged as christian church reconciliation civil rights forgiveness john perkins justice mississippi perkins race reconciliation march 13 2026 11 49 am smart handsome dad meets pronoun spouting teacher the following grumpy dad harangue from someone named ethan brooks on x reminds me of when our kids were in school it s pretty funny and is more entertaining than most flash fiction i run across read it all at the link had a parent teacher conference this morning my wife told me not to come i came anyway she said please just listen and nod i said i always listen she said you listen like you re sitting in a boardroom looking for something to challenge that s how listening works nice classroom small chairs i am 6 4 and was seated at a desk designed for someone who still believes in santa claus continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading leave a comment filed under uncategorized february 14 2026 6 00 am teen sensation charms chi town i was walking up michigan avenue on my way to the art institute the other day when i noticed what looked like a japanese teenager in front of the chicago symphony orchestra building she was holding a girly pink violin case and posing for selfies in front of a framed poster advertising upcoming shows must be a student i thought or a music loving kid on a school tour nope it was himari the 14 year old japanese violin prodigy cutely posing beside a poster of herself she s playing here this week we had to satisfy ourselves with a youtube video of her but she s sensational she was 12 at the time of this performance and i love our city share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading leave a comment filed under uncategorized tagged as himari japan kanade yokoyama max bruch music prodigy violin violin concerto no 1 in g minor february 13 2026 4 03 pm talking about russia and free speech financial adviser chris everett recently featured us on her new podcast check out what we had to say about freelancing from russia writing my j6 novel the insurrectionist and defending freedom of speech here in the united states and nonna has wisdom to offer about growing up in the soviet union and why we celebrate america share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading leave a comment filed under uncategorized january 26 2026 10 14 am life imitates satire max nemtsov editor of my wife nonna s russian translation of my new novel notes that a british publisher is redacting racial slurs and politically incorrect wording from a bestselling writer s old books did somebody predict this i think so in my satirical novel the insurrectionist a chicago newspaper forces a troublesome reporter to spend his workdays weeding such expressions from 172 years worth of digital archives which is why max tagged me on facebook he writes as they say life is more shameless than literature the guardian newspaper reports that scottish writer val mcdermid was annoyed to be assigned a sensitivity reader to remove offensive language from her earlier works she has sold more than 19 million copies worldwide and is known for her authentic dialogue the paper notes continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading leave a comment filed under uncategorized tagged as archives books bowdlerism censorship insurrectionist journalism newspaper novel politically correct politically incorrect redaction satire val mcdermid writing january 23 2026 2 09 pm when art preps the field for genocide by russell working a soviet poster reads rats of the ku klux klan american democracy my wife s christmas present for me last month was inspired for years i have talked about taking a drawing class so she signed me up for one at an art studio in our chicago suburb the class is ongoing and the teacher began the session by laying out the previous week s artwork white pencil or gouache on black paper and asking for critiques disturbingly one student artist had sketched a rat in a red maga cap crawling out of a tipped over trash can the message wasn t as original as he perhaps imagined portraying one s adversaries as vermin has a long and venomous history in nazi soviet north korean and other totalitarian propaganda continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading leave a comment filed under uncategorized tagged as art communism genocide history holocaust nazi politics rats soviet totalitarian november 28 2025 5 58 am thanksgiving liver un american happy thanksgiving everyone we are delighted to have younger son lev home but we dodged a culinary bullet we nearly had to dine on russell s famous thanksgiving fried liver the trouble was i was late in getting started cooking i d worked on a short story gone to the gym to work out and strolled to the store to get the butter we d forgotten plenty of time methinks we d decided to skip turkey this year opting for a huge pork shoulder but when we got it out of the fridge and unwrapped it the carcass smelled like roadkill i checked the sell by date oh this past monday we have liver said nonna my russian wife i like your fried liver not for thanksgiving we can t eat liver it s un american she checked the freezer there s pelmeni no we re treasonous enough not eating turkey we can t possibly eat pelmeni or liver they ll strip us of our citizenship i ll never understand these thanksgiving traditions of yours what does it matter what we eat god is watching i dumpstered the dead hog flesh dashed to the store by car this time and got another ample pork shoulder after speeding home i hastily grokked how long i should cook a six pound pork shoulder and what seven hours by now it was one o clock and i had to pick lev up at the greyhound station in 50 minutes oh well thanksgiving dinner at 8 pm we doused the hog meat in olive oil and our very delicious mix of herbs and spices and stuck it in the oven when i picked up lev i broke the bad news looks like we re going to have to cook liver if you re hungry the pork shoulder won t be ready until 8 i m down with that he said i like liver how long o lord must i dwell among the philistines luckily as it turned out the ai lied three hours was enough to cook us a crispy crusted tender delicious heap of pork and the liver can wait for another day share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading leave a comment filed under uncategorized tagged as america family food holidays liver pork thanksgiving turkey may 25 2025 12 36 pm of salamanders and missing cats i called my mother on saturday and as usual nowadays she couldn t really hear me she misplaced her hearing aids while in rehab earlier this year probably the third or fourth pair she has lost pity because these were very advanced and expensive ones probably costing 5 000 but really they provided only limited help her hearing like my own has declined to a point where hearing aids can t do much to correct the problem mom mentioned something annoying one of her caregivers had done i said was it alejandra what mom said was the caregiver alejandra she said i heard you say was there a salamander continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading leave a comment filed under uncategorized tagged as family hearing hearing aids hearing loss writing older posts recent posts 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