Irina Reyn Writer Irina Reyn talks to Kurt about her recent novel "What Happened to Anna K"
by Kurt Andersen
For her first novel, What Happened to Anna K., Reyn took Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and wrote a modern update set among Russian immigrants in Queens. A Soviet émigré who arrived in the U.S. at age seven, Reyn tells Kurt about how she still grapples with the Russian soul.