CREATIVES: Author Sophie Pinkham on her new work ‘The Oak & the Lark: A Forest History of Russia’, hosted by DJ Jacob – 4/19 & 4/23

Cornell professor Sophie Pinkham’s shares about her new book The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia, and also on the occasion of Ithaca College's New Voices Literary Festival, in which Pinkham will participate (April 22-24). Hosted by DJ Jacob of Jamaican Clash (alternating Sundays from 7-9pm)

From the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the steppes of Central Asia, Russia’s forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world’s wooded lands. Sophie Pinkham's new book "The Oak and the Larch" is the first-ever English-language exploration of this vast expanse—a dazzling environmental history of Russia that offers an urgent new understanding of the nature of Russian power, and of Russia’s ideas of itself.

Sophie Pinkham is a professor at Cornell University and a former NEH Public Scholar. Her writing on Russia and Ukraine has appeared in the New York Review of Books, New York Times, Guardian, New Yorker, and Harper’s. She lives in Ithaca, New York.

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