An American Saga Set in Kyiv
STORY DIRECTORY (non-linked) for VOLUME 1 – at a glance! INTRODUCTION Finch Letter No. 1 1 PROLOGUE December 3, 2012: On the Move/Farewell to the Ferret 2 Only English-language Newspaper…
The fantastical heap of sheets I first saw “The Kyiv Commix” in the winter of 2019. It was a week or so into the New Year, and I’d just returned…
Source Date: April 30, 2018 Dear Concerned Reader, My name is Jonathan Hartley Finch, a professor of modern literature at Attica College, Boston, MA. I represent the interests of detectives…
Local, third-rate rag finds cheek to call major Kyiv-installed cretin “author” The World Window Through Ukraine, this country’s only English-language newspaper, has had the temerity to headline a relentless loudmouth…
From: The Lost Interviews, Part 1 So, who do you read that you have become such a writer? Surely, you’ll acknowledge influences. Well, uh, uuuhhhhh… Dostoevsky, Kafka, Maupassant, maybe Samuel…
A running digest of the latest Ferret headlines The Munificent Swaggerer: Ferret Fired From Ukraine’s Only English-Language News Rag No, no, it’s not true! I left on my own terms.…
I met my dinner companion near the exit of the Poshtova Ploshcha (which translates roughly as Postal Square) metro station in Podil. He arrived almost exactly on time, just a…
From: The Lost Interviews, Part 87 It means you’re just a filthy, rotten, stinking, no-good, good-for-nothing, lowdown, lazy, lying – I’ll sue you for defamation! I’ll sue, I swear I…