My book baby is now in blue. Out Nov. 4. Pls pre-order so that bookstores stock YOUR PRESENCE IS MANDATORY for the holidays ❄️ geni.us/presenceismand…

Hope everyone is enjoying Litquake! Mark your calendars for next week ---

Saturday!

“Wonderfully weird”! “Really fun to read”! “Watch out”! (Okay, that last one was pieced out from a larger context…) Thanks to David Lewis at The Masters Review for this smart, generous look at Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine.

Come Crawl with us on Saturday! It's San Francisco's Litquake season. We have great stories for you!

Building bridges between nations doesn’t always need big delegations — sometimes, stories can help. Soon I’ll speak at a workshop for young people from Germany and Kazakhstan about my book and our history. (German and Russian) Register: [email protected] WhatsApp: +49 176 22 81 46

Tomorrow! Come crawl with us!

Tomorrow! Rain is in the forecast, but at Ruth's Table it'll be warm and cozy.

Huge thanks Elizabeth McKenzie and Chicago Quarterly Reivew for publishing my personal essay "The Richest Kid in the World." It's about the fall of the USSR as told through the eyes of a pre-teen, censorship, & the way end of censorship in the USSR affected different generations.

A blogger in Japan 🇯🇵 writes about the history of Germans from the Russian Empire- Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 Here’s his entry about my graphic novel “May the Universe Be Your Home!” Do people in Japan know more about our history than people in Germany? 🇩🇪 👉 note.com/28_aug_1941/n/…

Very much enjoyed teaching the first session of my Roundtable course on Lem and Gorenstein as Jewish speculative writers. I started with Lem's non-sci fi works - from Hospital of the Transfiguration to The Highcastle - and the importance of Lviv for him.

Returned from road-tripping across Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia to find this had arrived in the post. Friends, stand with Ukraine & order yourselves a copy from Jantar Publishing.

In English or auf Deutsch, we have the 2025 winner of the German Booksellers Peace Prize, Karl Schlögel, in the bookstore. Explore this fascinating deep dive into the Soviet century. #history #bookswelove #booksworthreading #friedenspreis

If I could dance, I’d be dancing at the sight of the latest The TLS! Simon Morrison, who knows all there is to know about 20th-C. music, has written a humdinger of a piece on Vernon Duke’s memoir and poems, out now from Paul Dry Books! the-tls.com/lives/biograph…

Bart Schneider will be presenting his beautiful book in SF on November 8. A wild, fictionalized story about the last few years of Giacometti's life, it's illustrated by a celebrated Sonoma county artist Chester Arnold. I'll read from my work, too! #BookTwitter #fiction #bookish

Bizarre Exiles-- tomorrow! On Tuesday, November 4, 4:30 pm, I'll be introducing a feminist philosopher from the former Yugoslavia (North Macedonia), Senka Anastasova and her book from Routledge Books POLITICAL NARRATOSOPHY, at Philosophers Club (824 Ulloa St). Come! #BookTwitter

We think of censorship as a political act, but systemic censorship affects areas that have the most remote relationship to politics. Why was Giacometti censored in the USSR? For similar reasons why today's Russia is cancelling Halloween. Come Saturday to this convo- #censorship

Looking beyond to 2026—! And grateful to be working with the one and only Alina:

👇Have your eyes open for the December issue. I've two poems--one for my father & one for my dear friend, Sokratease--forthcoming in this. Thank you, The Belfast Review, for selecting these special poems. How special it is that this issue releases on the 7th--Sokratease's birthday.