By Rich Fisher
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Tulsa, OK – On today's program we hear from longtime New Yorker Magazine writer and bestselling author Ian Frazier, whose latest book (just out in paperback) is "Travels in Siberia," which the San Francisco Chronicle has called "a masterpiece of nonfiction writing --- tragic, bizarre, and funny." Frazier will appear in Tulsa tomorrow night (Thursday the 10th) at 7pm at the All Souls Unitarian Church; it's a reading/signing presented by Book Smart Tulsa, and it's free to the public. As a critic of this book has noted in The New York Times Book Review: "['Travels in Siberia' is] an uproarious, sometimes dark yarn filled with dubious meals, broken-down vehicles, abandoned slave-labor camps, and ubiquitous statues of Lenin --- 'On the Road' meets 'The Gulag Archipelago'.... As he demonstrated in 'Great Plains,' Frazier is the most amiable of obsessives [as] he peels away Russia's stolid veneer to reveal the quirkiness and humanity beneath.... Frazier has the gumption and sense of wonder shared by every great travel writer, from Bruce Chatwin to Redmond O'Hanlon, as well as the ability to make us see how the most trivial or ephemeral detail is part of the essential texture of a place.... [This is an] endlessly fascinating tale."