Olga Grushin's guest appearances

Olga Grushin

Chatter on Books

Uncorking a Story

National Book Festival 2010 Videos

The Premise

Elliot Ackerman

Scott Turow

Steven V

David Epstein

Laura Vanderkam

Brian Anderson

Alexis Coe

Alfred Hitchcock

Jack Carr

Jennifer Weiner

Karin Slaughter

Erik Larson

Jason Stanley

Cindy Gallop

Tess Gerritsen

OwlTail

“The Dynasty of Nibbles and Brie” Chatter rolls into March madness with David, Torie and Jamie. Positively inclined reviews are read, and Torie’s angling for a boycott – just a little one. Olga Grushin joins to talk fairy tales, Russian to English, and her new book The Charmed Wife. Torie calls it a cross between Cinderella, Steven King and Freud. Fighting mice, talking teapots and fairy godmothers turned therapist are just a few of the characters in this “fierce feat of imagination” as Jess Walter called it. David crushes Deserted Island with his epic lines from Romeo and Juliet.

“The Dynasty of Nibbles and Brie” Chatter rolls into March madness with David, Torie and Jamie. Positively inclined reviews are read, and Torie’s angling for a boycott – just a little one. Olga Grushin joins to talk fairy tales, Russian to English, and her new book The Charmed Wife. Torie calls it a cross between Cinderella, Steven King and Freud. Fighting mice, talking teapots and fairy godmothers turned therapist are just a few of the characters in this “fierce feat of imagination” as Jess Walter called it. David crushes Deserted Island with his epic lines from Romeo and Juliet.

Olga Grushin  - The Charmed Wife

Olga Grushin wrote her first story at just seven years old, and it happens to have been a fairy tale. She discusses why she chose to write in English, though Russian is her first language, and how it shapes the way she tells stories while retaining a Russian sensibility. The Charmed Wife is her latest book and she and Jeniffer discuss why she was inspired to reimagine Cinderella as a divorcee. Olga also talks about why she started writing, how she got an agent and a publisher, her genre-bending storytelling and much more. This one will make you rethink fairy tales and women’s roles in them. Oh, and yes, there is some discussion of talking mice. 

Olga Grushin wrote her first story at just seven years old, and it happens to have been a fairy tale. She discusses why she chose to write in English, though Russian is her first language, and how it shapes the way she tells stories while retaining a Russian sensibility. The Charmed Wife is her latest book and she and Jeniffer discuss why she was inspired to reimagine Cinderella as a divorcee. Olga also talks about why she started writing, how she got an agent and a publisher, her genre-bending storytelling and much more. This one will make you rethink fairy tales and women’s roles in them. Oh, and yes, there is some discussion of talking mice.

040 - Olga Grushin - Author of The Charmed Wife

Olga Grushin was born in Moscow and moved to the United States at eighteen. She is the author of three previous novels, Forty Rooms, The Line and The Dream Life of Sukhanov. Her debut, The Dream Life of Sukhanov, won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, earned her a place on Granta's once-a-decade Best Young American Novelists list, and was one of The New York Times' Notable Books of the Year. Both it and The Line were among The Washington Post's Ten Best Books of the Year, and Forty Rooms was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of the Year. Grushin writes in English, and her work has been translated into sixteen languages. She lives outside Washington, DC, with her two children. Listen in as we talk about her upbringing in Moscow and Prague and how she knew she wanted to be a writer at the tender age of four. To that end, every year on her mother’s birthday she’d present her with a typed, illustrated, and bound original book—hearing this made me feel bad about always giving my mother an ashtray for her birthday (to be fair, though, she was a smoker). We also talk about her journey to the United States at eighteen to study at Emory as well as her path to publishing. Of course, we discuss her new book The Charmed Wife, which has been characterized by CNN as “A modern take on the story of Cinderella, marriage, divorce and love that’s surprising, darkly comedic and enchanting.” This was a great conversation and I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed hosting it. Follow Olga on twitter @olgagrushin and purchase The Charmed Wife wherever books are sold.

Olga Grushin was born in Moscow and moved to the United States at eighteen. She is the author of three previous novels, Forty Rooms, The Line and The Dream Life of Sukhanov. Her debut, The Dream Life of Sukhanov, won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, earned her a place on Granta's once-a-decade Best Young American Novelists list, and was one of The New York Times' Notable Books of the Year. Both it and The Line were among The Washington Post's Ten Best Books of the Year, and Forty Rooms was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of the Year. Grushin writes in English, and her work has been translated into sixteen languages. She lives outside Washington, DC, with her two children. Listen in as we talk about her upbringing in Moscow and Prague and how she knew she wanted to be a writer at the tender age of four. To that end, every year on her mother’s birthday she’d present her with a typed, illustrated, and bound original book—hearing this made me feel bad about always giving my mother an ashtray for her birthday (to be fair, though, she was a smoker). We also talk about her journey to the United States at eighteen to study at Emory as well as her path to publishing. Of course, we discuss her new book <a href="https://amzn.to/3qyktMV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Charmed Wife</a>, which has been characterized by CNN as “A modern take on the story of Cinderella, marriage, divorce and love that’s surprising, darkly comedic and enchanting.” This was a great conversation and I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed hosting it. Follow Olga on twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/olgagrushin" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">@olgagrushin</a> and purchase The Charmed Wife wherever books are sold.

Author Olga Grushin