i will stop tweeting about this eventually but i think every journalist should read svetlana alexievich every single one. im reading War's Unwomanly Face now, her interviews with Soviet female veterans of WWII and it is just? extraordinary... so is Voices of Chernobyl...
(i am interspersing my reading the translation with a bit of the original russian but i read very slowly in russian)
anyway it will change the way you look at the work of journalism and the way you see the world. it will. at least it did for me
in the introduction to the republished War's Unwomanly Face (from 2002 originally published in 1985) she includes some conversations she had with Soviet censors. and then includes some passages she herself self-censored! extraordinary
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