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Thu, Jul 01
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Readings By Writers: Mikhail Iossel
Love Like Water, Love Like Fire. Mikhail recommends buying his book at your favorite independent bookstore or at Open Door Bookstore. https://www.opendoor-bookstore.com/book/9781942658566
Time & Location
Jul 01, 2021, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM PDT
Zoom - Please RSVP for password
About the Workshop
"Love Like Water, Love Like Fire is an extraordinary book: funny and profound, moving and provocative. Rarely has life in the former USSR (or anywhere, for that matter) been portrayed with such a rich admixture of soaring observation and finely rendered detail. This is a gorgeously constructed collection by one of our wittiest and most insightful writers." --Molly Antopol, author of The UnAmericans
"Mikhail Iossel is a genius, a comic visionary in the tradition of Gogol, Keret, Barthelme, and Saunders. Love Like Water, Love Like Fire is a book of surprises and delights." --Brian Morton, author of Starting Out in the Evening and Florence Gordon
From the moment of its founding, the USSR was reviled and admired, demonized and idealized. Many Jews saw the new society ushered in by the Russian Revolution as their salvation from shtetl life with its deprivations and deadly pogroms. But Soviet Russia was rife with…