INTERVIEW - Pittsburgh Review of Books

White Coal – Dimitris Lyacos in Conversation with Toti O’Brien “As I am writing this, my plane is getting closer to Moscow. I am probably already flying over tens of former gulag camps and penal colonies, now hidden under the earth I intermittently see under the clouds.”
Editor’s Note: A Russian translation of Toti O’Brien’s interview with Dimitris Lyacos was originally supposed to run this past August of 2025 in the journal Flagi. Ultimately, before the interview could run, state-authorities removed the site from the web and arrested its editor and co-founder, poet Glickeriy Ulunov.