If you ever read Anna Karenina and thought, "pretty good, but it could have used more robots," celebrate the publication of Android Karenina, the first collaboration between legendary Russian author Count Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. Winters, creator of The New York Times bestseller Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Hear Winters read selections from the novel, which combines Tolstoy's famous tale of yearning and foredoomed love with cyborgs, anti-gravitational trains, and death lizards from space. And in case Tolstoy doesn't show, Winters will be joined by essayist and Russophile extraordinaire Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them.
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