Hour 1: Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist and gay-rights activist. Ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, we’ll talk to her this hour about her new book, Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot (Riverhead Trade), and about her complicated relationship with the country of her birth.
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