Performance artist, author, and journalist Zarina Zabrisky was in conversation with our author Joanna Stingray in a livestream Youtube event hosted by Globus Books on November 16th at 5 PM… Read more Joanna Stingray book talk with Zarina Zabrisky →
The excerpt below originates in Belarusian scholar Sasha Razor‘s in depth interview of Joanna Stingray. Many Cold War narratives in the West feature a great deal of objectification and exoticism.… Read more LA Review of Books Interviews Joanna Stingray →
The Big Issue, a British free newspaper founded to help the unsheltered population, interviewed Joanna Stingray for a feature dedicated to Viktor Tsoi’s legacy and his song “Peremen,” (“Change”). The… Read more The Big Issue Interviews Joanna Stingray →
“Joanna Stingray’s autobiographical account relates her time on the underground music scene in the USSR and Russia in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During this time Joanna met and… Read more NewBooks Podcast Features Joanna Stingray →
The idea of Soviet Russia often paints a bleak picture in our minds; in the height of the Cold War, many Americans saw it as a cultural blackhole. In her… Read more Joanna Stingray’s Music Video “Feeling” Reveals a Warmer Cold War Leningrad →
As one of the first American musicians to break through the Soviet scene, and one of the few women to be seen as an equal amongst Leningrad’s pantheon of rock… Read more Punk scholar Alexander Herbert endorses forthcoming Stingray memoir →
“Polishchuk describes much of his life with a chuckle. He says that the book is, in part, meant to convey the absurdity of the Soviet experience.”
Publishers Weekly takes an in-depth look at the memoir of Russian Jewish dissident and human rights advocate Arkady Polishchuk in a special interview with Howard Lovy: A true story of… Read more Publishers Weekly’s interview unwraps significant details in Russian dissident’s story →