Richard Wirick lives in Los Angeles. One Hundred Siberian Postcards grew out of his assignments in Ukraine and Siberia in 2003-5, and his adoption of a Siberian daughter.
The first night she appeared as if inflated in front of his window, her face encrusted with pufferfish-like spines, the blue necklace trailing his furniture like a kite string. Subsequent evenings had her face assembling itself in collapsing and reappearing segments of silver, like an escalator of weightless, persistent mercury.
There really is nothing quite like 100 Siberian Postcards. Richard Wirick reads the first four "postcards" from his dazzling first novel, published by Telegram in July 2006, and if you can't wait for the book to come out then you're going to have to listen to Radio Telegram instead...
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