Celebrate Tomorrow!

Vica Miller Literary Salons and Ladno Books look forward to celebrating Russia! with you tomorrow, May 20.

May. 19 2015

Vica Miller Lit. Salons Turn Six, Inga’s Zigzags Turns One & We Celebrate

May has always been special around here. Today, May 14, our first title, Inga’s Zigzags turns one. A month earlier, Vica Miller Literary Salons turned six. We’ll be celebrating with Russia! Salon on May 20th at Mimi Ferzt gallery . 

That date is special too: Vica Miller (then Vinogradova) first came to NYC from St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) via Prague (then in Czechoslovakia), 25 years earlier, on May 20, 1990. 

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That’s not all - we have a new project in the works: On Loving, a collection of short stories and essays on all things love - from kinky to platonic, from joyful to devastating - from our favorite women authors who have appeared at the Salon. 

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Happy May and come celebrate with us!

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We’ll be updating our site, too, with an announce of a formal Advisory Board (Bobby Shriver, Bernie Sucher, Sergei Ilchenko & others) and a formal Editorial Board (Vica Miller, Rebecca Baldridge, Rakesh Satyal, and others). Stay tuned for details!

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May. 14 2015
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A story published…

It always feel a little bit like Christmas when you work gets published. 

Here is the latest by Vica Miller in LitroNY - the offspring of the British Litro.

The Table

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“In that moment of hesitation she had put her bag of groceries on the table in front of her, and it sat there, like an anchor to a place where she’d rather not be.”

Oct. 22 2014
#fiction writing nyc
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“In this well-written debut novel… Miller engagingly presents a heroine caught between contradictions: New York and Moscow; flashy glamour and self-pitying nostalgia; certainty and doubt. A sexy tale with plenty of Russian atmosphere…”
— – Kirkus Reviews
Apr. 20 2014
#fiction #writing #Inga's Zigzags
“As more wine flowed and more smoke was inhaled, my head started to feel like a giant haystack. I no longer felt awkward staring at the kissing girls at my feet, nor did I find it strange.”
— Inga’s Zigzags by Vica Miller
Apr. 20 2014
#Inga's Zigzags #Moscow #fiction
“Right, as if finding a nice guy in New York is such an easy proposition. Look at you! You had to go to Moscow and meet two women to find your match.”
— Vica Miller, Inga’s Zigzags
Mar. 26 2014
#Inga's Zigzags #writing #fiction #Moscow #new york
“A drop of wine landed on my right breast. Alexandra unzipped my skirt. The movie played in the background, as I surrendered to their knowing hands. I felt like I had boarded a ship of hope and it had carried me to Tikhaya Bukhta, the Quiet Bay – this time not in the Crimea, on the Black Sea, but in my own heart.”
— Vica Miller, Inga’s Zigzags
Mar. 6 2014
#Inga's Zigzags #erotica #threesome #crimea #Russia #ukraine
“With my feet on the lower couchette, my hands on the upper, and my crotch somewhere in between, Emma’s and Alexandra’s lips and hands delivered me to ecstasy just as the train delivered us to the city of my youth.”
— Vica Miller, Inga’s Zigzags
Feb. 27 2014
#Inga's Zigzags #writing #St. Petersburg #sex #fiction
“I didn’t want to be caught in the web of Moscow secrets. I still believed I could be just an observer, with New York serving as my shield against local intrigues.”
— Vica Miller, Inga’s Zigzags
Feb. 22 2014
#Inga's Zigzags #fiction #writing #Moscow #new york
The galleys for Inga’s Zigzags are here. Feels surreal.

The galleys for Inga’s Zigzags are here. Feels surreal.

Feb. 14 2014
#Inga's Zigzags #writing #fiction #Russia #nyc #publishing #ladno books