Ray Nayler
An author, musician, and visual artist, Ray Nayler was born in Northern Quebec, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, receiving his degree in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He subsequently moved to Toronto for a few years before serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, from 2003-2005.
Since then, Ray has lived and traveled widely in Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, as well as other parts of the world. He currently lives in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
A comic Ray Nayler authored can be viewed at Zuda Comics
Ray's fiction has been published in a wide range of magazines including The Berkeley Fiction Review, the award-winning Crimewave, Cemetery Dance, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. His story "Man in the Dark" received a "Distinguished Mystery Story of 2002" mention in Otto Penzler's Best American Mystery Stories 2003, and his story "The Bat House" received the same honor in Best American Mystery Stories Volume 4. He has contributed travel writing to a number of online and print magazines, authored a 9-part series on the Moscow Metro for Passport Moscow, and is a founding editor of the upcoming Standardized Randomly magazine, to be published in Toronto.
Ray is the author of American Graveyards, a novel published by TTA Press. For a sample of his fiction, here's a piece that was published both in Crimewave and online at Fantastic Metropolis.
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World's Best Webcomics – Bayou
Bayou, at Zuda Comics, brings to life a new, uniquely Southern, mythology. And does it with style.
Jun 7, 2010
- Ray Nayler
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A Drifting Life
Yoshihiro Tatsumi's groundbreaking autobiography is an insight into the experiences of a young Japanese manga artist.
Feb 16, 2010
- Ray Nayler
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Black Hole
There is nothing so drenched in black as this eerie novel of teenage angst, sexual anxiety, and isolation.
Feb 16, 2010
- Ray Nayler
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Moscow Metro Tour: Ring Line
The Ring Line is the heart of the Moscow Metro -- an underground masterpiece of Soviet grandeur, Stalinist architecture, and grandiose city planning projects.
Feb 11, 2010
- Ray Nayler
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Moscow Metro Tour: Red Line
The Red Line of Moscow's extensive public transport network, encompassing many of the city's interesting stations, is a museum of excellent art and architecture.
Apr 8, 2008
- Ray Nayler
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Moscow Metro Tour: Green Line
A tour of the Green Line of the Moscow Metropolitan, focusing on the art, architecture and hostory of the most famous stations.
Apr 8, 2008
- Ray Nayler
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Moscow Metro Tour: Dark Blue Line
Architectural and artistic highlights, history behind some of stations on the Dark Blue Line of the Moscow Metropolitan, the transport web of the Russian capitol
Apr 8, 2008
- Ray Nayler
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Russian Culture Guide: Holidays
There are a wide range of holidays in the Russian Federation, official and unofficial. Here's a guide to public holidays and how they are traditionally celebrated.
Mar 27, 2008
- Ray Nayler
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Ethnicities of Russia
There's more to Russia than just Russians! The Russian Federation is a fascinating quilt of cultures, from Abkhazians to Yukaghirs.
Mar 26, 2008
- Ray Nayler
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Russian Superstitions
Russian superstitions differ widely from those found in the west, and a good knowledge of them is helpful when traveling to Russia or other Former Soviet Republics.
Mar 26, 2008
- Ray Nayler
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