Ilya Danishevsky graduated from the Moscow Literary Institute and studied the history of religions at the Russian State Humanitarian University. He is editor-in-chief of the Anhedonia book project (published by AST) dedicated to studying the institution of violence in contemporary Russia. Danishevsky is interested in those who describe reality in spite of official discourse. In 2014 he published his novel "Tenderness for the Dead", and his book Mannelig in Chains came out in 2018.

“Mannelig in Chains has been hailed by critics as a foundational text of queer modernism in the former Soviet Union, a movement that’s now coming of age. This emergent body of literature both centers queer narrators and formally reproduces the disorienting nature of their experience. … Fluid identity, the unstable nature of private and public spheres, the sensory overload of war turned spectacle—in Mannelig, all are reflected within a narrative strategy designed to induce vertigo. Frequent usage of nested, cascading clauses shuttle the reader between pasts and presents that grow increasingly entangled. Equal parts telegraphic and elliptical, Mannelig merges the phantasmagorical personal with the stuff of byt.” - From Anne O. Fisher's website. Fischer and Alex Karsavin are translators of "Mannelig in Chains."

Zarina Zabrisky is the author of three short story collections and a novel "We, Monsters" (Numina Press, 2014). Zabrisky's work appeared in nine countries in over fifty literary magazines and anthologies, including The Nervous Breakdown, A Capella Zoo, The Rumpus, Guernica, and received nominations and awards, including 2013 Acker Awards for Avant-Garde Excellence. Zabrisky runs literary and cultural programs at Globus Books.

This event is in English and will be held on Zoom on June 23, 2021, at 10.00 am PST (SF), 1.00 pm EST (NY), 20.00 (Moscow.)

There will be a limited number of seats; please contact Globus Books via FB messenger to register.
We will also be live streaming the event on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/GlobusBooksSF/videos) and later will share the edited version of the program.