Globus Books is honored to host a pre-release book launch of Irina Mashinski's "Naked World."
Participants also include translators MARIA BLOSHTEYN, ROBERT CHANDLER, and BORIS DRALYUK, the MadHat’s publisher MARC VINCENZ, and poet CHARD deNIORD.
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From ILYA KAMINSKY’s preface to The Naked World:
This is a soul-making book, one that doesn't rest easy on the conventional narrative of one refugee's escape, but probes deeper into the music our days make, sometimes against our will."
IRINA MASHINSKI moved to the US from Moscow in 1991. She is the author of eleven books of poetry and essays in Russian. She is co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk, of The
Penguin Book of Russian Poetry and of the Cardinal Points Journal. Her work has been translated into several languages and appeared in Poetry International, Plume, The World
Literature Today, Asymptote, and elsewhere.
MARIA BLOSHTEYN was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and emigrated to Canada when she was nine years old. She received her PhD from Toronto’s York University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, where she examined Dostoevsky’s impact on American literature and culture. She is the author of The Making of a Counter-Culture Icon: Henry Miller’s Dostoevsky (2007) and the translator of Alexander Galich’s Dress Rehearsal (2009) and Anton Chekhov’s The Prank (2015). Her translations have also appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015).
ROBERT CHANDLER’s translations from Russian, mostly for NYRB Classics, include works by Alexander Pushkin and Nikolay Leskov; several collections of stories and memoirs by Teffi; and
novels and stories by Vasily Grossman, Andrey Platonov and Hamid Ismailov. He is the editor and main translator of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida and Russian Magic Tales
from Pushkin to Platonov. Together with Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski, he has co-edited The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry. His forthcoming publications include Pushkin’s Peter the Great’s African (co-translated with Boris Dralyuk) and Vasily Grossman’s The People Immortal.
BORIS DRALYUK is the Editor in Chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books and translator of Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov, Maxim Osipov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and other authors. His poems have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Hopkins Review, The New Criterion, and elsewhere. His collection My Hollywood and Other Poems is forthcoming from Paul Dry Books in April 2022.
CHARD deNIORD is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently In My Unknowing (University of Pittsburgh Press 2020) and Interstate (U. of Pittsburgh Press 2018. In 2001, he co-founded the New England College MFA Program in Poetry, where he served as the program director until 2007. He is a Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Providence College and the essay editor at Plume Poetry. From 2015 to 2019 he served as Poet Laureate of Vermont. He lives in Westminster West, Vermont with his wife, Liz.
MARC VINCENZ is a poet, fiction writer, artist and musician. He has published 18 collections of poetry, including more recently, Einstein Fledermaus, The Little Book of Earthly Delights and A Brief Conversation with Consciousness. He is publisher and editor of MadHat Press and publisher of New American Writing. He lives on a farm in rural Western Massachusetts with his wife, Miriam, and their Australian Cobberdog, Emily Dickinson.
GLOBUS BOOKS is an independent bookstore serving San Francisco since 1971. It offers a wide-ranging stock of books on all things Russia. Globus is actively working with the libraries across the states on completing their holdings for Russian publications, both contemporary and out-of-print. The Globus Books team is well-known for its expertise in first editions of Russian literature, books on the Russian avant-garde, early imprints, and travel and voyage books. Under the new management, Globus strives to serve the Bay Area, bridging gaps, continuing cultural traditions, and giving voice to unrepresented communities in Russia and the US.
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ZARINA ZABRISKY is the author of three short story collections and a novel "We, Monsters" (Numina Press, 2014). Zabrisky's work appeared in literary magazines and anthologies, including The Nervous Breakdown, A Capella Zoo, The Rumpus, Guernica, and received nominations and awards, including the 2013 Acker Award for Avant-Garde Excellence.