Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya

Simon Karlinsky is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor of The Sexual Labyrinth of Nicolai Gogol (1992) and Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought (1997).

praise for the first edition:

"When two such brilliantly ebullient intellectuals get together by mail, they charge the air with all sorts of pyrotechnics."—Carlos Baker, author of Hemingway