Spend a mellow Sunday afternoon listening to the works of accomplished local authors. This week the JCC presents:
- Emil Draitser-author and professor of Russian at Hunter College. He began his career as a freelance journalist in the Soviet Union, where he was blacklisted. Author of 12 books of artistic and scholarly prose, his essays and short stories have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Partisan Review, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other American and Canadian periodicals. His most recent books: Stalin's Romeo Spy: the Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB's Most Daring Operative, and Shush! Growing up Jewish under Stalin: A Memoir. He will read and discuss a chapter from "Shush".
- George Kraus, Ph.D.-holds his doctoral degree in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Languages and Literatures from the Graduate Center, CUNY. His chapbook, Rendition, was published by Toadlily Press' An Uncommon Accord. His poems have also appeared in The Best of Toadlily Press (2011). He will read hi new works.
Email geofkraus@aol.com for additional information. Call 366.7898 to register.
