Back in 1995, when digital cameras hadn’t become a thing and just 14% of Americans had ever been online, Gary Matoso came up with the radical and slightly insane idea to create a real-time Web travelogue across Russia.
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I’m thrilled to announce that on January 31, 2017, St. Martin’s Press will publish my first non-collaborative book, Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys Across a Changing Russia. The book chronicles my 20 years’ worth of interviews with ordinary Russians, from research scientists on Lake Baikal, to the Jewish community of Birobidzhan, to a group of gay friends in Novosibirsk, to a maverick farmer in Buryatia.
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