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Couldn't be more thrilled that my next book has found a happy home with Maria Goldverg at @LiverightPub, and to be returning to @BloomsburyBooks for book #2.
Linda Kinstler
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Linda Kinstler
@lindakinstler
- Greetings from Riga, where I've just learned the verb Макронить, (loosely translated as, to make a Macron-call): To call and say absolutely nothing; to appear to be concerned about a situation and really do nothing at all.
- In September, I visited Kyiv to report on the new memorial project at Babi Yar, the place where the Holocaust "began." Everyone working on it believed that by building the memorial complex, they were building the future of Ukraine. (1/4)
- Replying to @lindakinstlerFinally, if you want to know about Russian & Ukrainian memory wars & the perversion of WWII history in this terrible moment, I hope this will help. Here's the piece: jewishcurrents.org/the-many-obliv… (4/4)
- Zelenskiy’s speech makes me want to cry—all of our grandparents fought in the Soviet Army. From Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kherson—they went. Zelenskiy rose to the moment: you know our character, he said. No one wants war, hot or cold. Ukraine just wants to exist. let them. Слава героям.
- The night before my old friend Evan moved to Moscow, he messaged me: "Tell all your friends there they must hang out with me or else!” Now he is being held hostage in Moscow. I wrote about him for @POLITICOMag: politico.com/news/magazine/… #FreeEvanGershkovich @FreeGershkovich
- Babi Yar is the biggest Holocaust mass grave in Europe, a place that has been obliterated & rebuilt recursively, a place that is fertilized by human remains. It is a holy site for everyone, a place that the Soviets tied to bury. Now I fear it has once again been destroyed.#Breaking: Statement of Andriy Yermak, Chairman of the Presidential Office: "Russia has launched a missile attack on the territory where the Babyn Yar memorial complex is located. These villains are killing Holocaust victims for the second time."
- I went to Stockholm to meet Lena, "The First Lady of The Internet," for @Wired. Her photo, "The Lenna," is one of the most controversial & most-copied images in computer history, yet Lena herself has been almost entirely occluded from its journey:
- "This is a new nation, and one that will never be crushed by evil powers, no matter what Russia is doing or plotting." @maria_avdv's chilling report from Kharkiv for @IWPR:
- Replying to @lindakinstlerIt is a place that has been repeatedly obliterated, likened to the ancient river Lethe. Last week, it was obliterated once more by a Russian missile strike that killed five people. It also destroyed a building slated to be a museum to the Holocaust in Eastern Europe (2/4)
- Replying to @lindakinstlerAlmost everyone who is working on the memorial has now fled Kyiv, but some have taken up arms. "Our job is to help Ukraine stand and win this war for independence, to stay a democracy, to stay a free society. To finish the work that we started," one source told me last week (3/4)
- "The question isn't if we'll survive. We'll survive. The question is how he falls." Wishing strength & safety to @mefimus, who spoke to @juliaioffe as he worked to resupply Kyiv: puck.news/the-image-of-p…
- Who will remember the horrors of Ukraine? How can we save them from being swallowed up by denial? Glad to be able to highlight the work of @maksy_taxi @CST_echo @ForensicArchi in @nytopinion today. Let us not turn away.
