Alex Kudera’s award-winning debut, Fight for Your Long Day (Atticus Books), and second novel, Auggie’s Revenge (Beating Windward Press), both concern the disturbing, if darkly comic, plight of the pay-per-course academic. His published short stories include “A Thanksgiving” (Eclectica Magazine) and “My Father’s Great Recession” (Heavy Feather Review).
When Clea returns to London with her new Russian husband, she is surprised to see him become even more eccentric.
A haunting dystopia some readers have called “the new 1984.” In a society where memory is rewritten and resistance is pre-approved, freedom isn’t restricted; it’s redefined. As systems evolve beyond human control and choice becomes a simulation, true defiance means refusing the script, even when the system already knows you will.
“13 short pieces…pungently convey the effects of growing up under a totalitarian regime.” .—Publishers Weekly
Original poetry by Nina Kossman, accompanied by a selection of poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated from Russian by Kossman. “The sea is a postcard,” writes Nina Kossman. There is both something elemental in this vision and—iron-tough.”
—Ilya Kaminsky