Name: The Art of One-Sentence Storytelling: "SENTENCE" Book Launch in New York
Start: 2025-11-02T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-02T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Kvartira Books (formerly MyBiblioteka)

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Can you write a Russian sentence in English?</b></div><div data-onlytext="true"><br></div><div data-onlytext="true">In his new collection Sentence, acclaimed writer <b>Mikhail Iossel </b>(Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction nominee, 2026) performs a remarkable juggling act between genres and countries. Each one-sentence story spins breathlessly through memory and imagination, where past and present coexist in a single, unbroken line of thought.</div><div data-onlytext="true"><br></div><div data-onlytext="true">Born in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia), Iossel worked as an electromagnetic engineer and was a member of an underground samizdat literary organization before immigrating to the United States in 1986. His recent books include <i>Love Like Water, Love Like Fire</i> (winner of the 2021 QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction) and <i>Notes from Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling</i>.</div><div data-onlytext="true"><br></div><div data-onlytext="true">A frequent contributor to <i>The New Yorker</i>, his stories and essays have also appeared in <i>The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Policy</i>, and <i>Best American Short Stories</i>. Iossel is also the founding director of Summer Literary Seminars and an associate professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal.</div><div data-onlytext="true"><br></div><div data-onlytext="true">Join us for a conversation and signing as we celebrate <i>Sentence</i>, a poignant collection that fuses linguistic freedom with emotional precision.</div><div data-onlytext="true"><br></div><div data-onlytext="true">📅 11/2 | 6pm</div><div data-onlytext="true">🍷 BYOB</div><div data-onlytext="true">🎟️ Free (space is limited—RSVP now!)

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The Art of One-Sentence Storytelling: "SENTENCE" Book Launch

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Can you write a Russian sentence in English?In his new collection Sentence, acclaimed writer Mikha

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