Participants: Maria (Masha) Bloshteyn, Mark Budman, Anna Golubkova, Andrey Gritsman, Marina Eskin, Galina Itskovich, Nina Kossman, Shomo Krol, Olena Maksakowa, Dmitri Manin, Yelena Matusevich, Bella Mizrahi, Julia Nemirovskaya, Ian Probstein, Tatiana Retivov, Sergey Shabalin, Vita Shtivelman, Olga Stein, Alexander Veytsman, Josie von Zitzewitz.
Conversations About Recently Published Books.
Carlos Penela’s new book of poetry, “Between the Shadow and the Rose” (co-translated with Alta Ifland)
Participants (in alphabetical order): Vladimir Bogomyakov (Siberia, Russia), Nancy Naomi Carlson (Maryland) & Marie-Léontine Tsibinda Bilombo (Congo), Marina Eskin (Boston), Anne Fisher (Indiana),
Anna Halberstadt (New York), Elizabeth Hulick (New York), Nina Kossman (New York), Jenya Krein (Boston), Julia Kunina-Julia Trubikhina (New York), Дмитрий Манин (California), Ian Probstein (New York), Gali-Dana Singer (Jerusalem), Andrew Singer ( New York), Margarita Slivniak (Toronto), Alexander Veytsman (New York), Anton Yakovlev (New York), Mary Jane White (Iowa), Josie von Zitzewitz (London, UK / Tromso, Norway), Igor Satanovsky (New York).
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
