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Alexei Navalny's motto: "I am not afraid, and you shouldn't be afraid either."
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“Everything will be all right. And, even if it won’t be, we’ll have the consolation of having lived honest lives.”
Alexei Navalny (1976-2024)
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They couldn't break him, no matter how hard and how long they tried, and so they killed him.
They still can hear his laughter in their ears.
His posthumous life of a heroic, historic figure has begun and will continue for generations to come.
His dead-eyed murderer's life, on the other hand, has been over from the very first, and although his body and his diseased mind may still be functioning, he is dead to life and despised and wished to be dead by all the decent people in the world. He was born dead, has lived his horrible shameful life in death, and death will be his only legacy.
(Mikhail Iossel)
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llovelymoonn · 2 years
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on girlhood
salma deera the burning ones (via @facinaoris) \\ maggie meiners girl interrupted, edition 3/9 \\ marie ponsot springing: new and selected poems: "a visit" \\ philippa langrish 1 \\ catherine forster "cactus, flower, fuck-off, love, rose" \\ marie howe the girl (via mikhail iossel) \\ sarah paulsen the slumber party
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artworldblogmural · 2 years
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I recently came across the Montreal-based literary journal, Yolk. Editor-in-chief, Josh Quirion, and Managing Editor, Curtis John McRae, have put together a strong collection of work, and I've enjoyed reading the latest issue. They also have an interview section, ARS POETICA, and I listened to the interview they did with Mikhail Iossel, where he speaks about his life as an underground writer in the USSR, among other things. Well worth the listen. Christian Fennell: A Monthly Look at the Arts https://www.christianfennell.com/post/myartworld-03-22 #MyArtWorld #art #artists #writers #literature #literaryfiction #litmags #montreal #interview
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bigtickhk · 3 years
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Love Like Water, Love Like Fire by Mikhail Iossel https://amzn.to/2RpkQxc 
https://bookshop.org/a/17891/9781942658566
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el-im · 2 years
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2022
key ↻ = re-read ☞ = continuing (started previously) ✑ = for school ➢ = reading to ellum  ✏︎ = from the library  ☏ = others recommended and/or gifted to me
- measuring eternity: the search for the beginning of time by martin gorst - the holy bible (the revised standard version) - stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by mary roach - the primeval atom: an essay on cosmogony by canon georges lemaître, trans. betty h. and serge a. koroff - ✑ the land ethic by aldo leopold - cyrano de bergerac by edmond rostand, trans. gladys thomas and mary f. guillemard - ↻ cyrano de bergerac by edmond rostand, trans. brian hooker - quantum leap: the novel by ashley mcconnell - deadeye dick by kurt vonnegut - the bean trees by barbara kingsolver - colossus by d. f. jones - war with the newts by karel čapek - ☏ animal dreams by barbara kingsolver - voices from chernobyl by svetlana alexievich, trans. keith gessen - love like water, love like fire by mikhail iossel  - cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world by mark kurlansky - the lathe of heaven by ursula k. le guin - ☞ special topics in calamity physics by marisha pessl - winter count by barry holstun lopez - galápagos by kurt vonnegut - the house of the seven gables by nathaniel hawthorne - the year of magical thinking by joan didion - ✑ modern architecture since 1900 by william j. r. curtis - ✑ introduction to recreation services: sustainability for a changing world by   karla a. henderson - ☏ the member of the wedding by carson mccullers - giovanni's room by james baldwin - the autobiography of f.b.i. special agent dale cooper: my life, my tapes by scott frost - the making of the atomic bomb by richard rhodes - too close for comfort by ashley mcconnell - isaac newton by james gleick - the myth of sisyphus by albert camus - the cosmic connection: an extraterrestrial perspective by carl sagan - starfleet academy by mike johnson and ryan parrott - time, love, memory: a great biologist and his quest for the origins of behavior by jonathan weiner - alaska bear tales by larry kaniut - the glass menagerie by tennessee williams  - ☞ waiting for godot by samuel beckett  - ☏ the tin drum by günter wilhelms grass - ☞ nine stories by j. d. salinger  - from both sides now: the poetry of the vietnam war and its aftermath, edited by phillip mahony - brave new world by aldous huxley - ➢ stuart little by e. b. white  - ➢ the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe by c. s. lewis - uncle tungsten: memories of a chemical boyhood by oliver sacks - hope: entertainer of the century by richard zoglin - my brief history by stephen hawking - ☞ solar perplexus by dean young - the omnivore's dilemma by michael pollan - ☞ log three by alan dean foster - the last thing he wanted by joan didion - still foolin’ em’ by billy crystal - kitchen confidential: adventures in the culinary underbelly by anthony bourdain - broken bow by diane carey - ☞ for the relief of unbearable urges by nathan englander - star trek: the motion picture: a novel by gene roddenberry - my incredibly wonderful, miserable life by adam nimoy - i am not spock by leonard nimoy - gentleman: the william powell story by charles francisco - myrna loy: being and becoming by myrna loy and james kotsilibas-davis - joy of cooking (6th edition, december 1986) by irma s. rombauer and marion rombauer - pulitzer: a life in politics, print, and power by james mcgrath morris - the sea by john banville - the all-new, all-purpose joy of cooking (7th edition, january 1997) by irma s. rombauer, marion rombauer, and ethan becker - ✏︎ the anatomist: a true story of gray’s anatomy by bill hayes - ✏︎ natural history by carlos fonseca, trans. megan mcdowell - ✏︎ the lamb's war by jan de hartog - ✑ evolution (second edition) by carl t. bergstrom and lee alan dugatkin - ✑ your inner fish: a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body by neil shubin - ✑ interactive general chemistry by jessica white, brian anderson, brandon green, and mildred hall - ✑ ecology (eighth edition) by manuel c. molles jr. and anna sher simon - ✏︎ the sirens of mars: searching for life on another world by sarah stewart johnson  - ↻ the man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales by oliver sacks - letters to véra by vladimir nabokov, trans. olga voronina and brian boyd - ✏︎ the history of tom jones: a foundling by henry fielding, illustrated by t. m. cleland - cactus hotel by brenda z. guiberson, illustrated by megan lloyd - ✏︎ tinkers by paul harding - ✏︎ the life and death of peter sellers by roger lewis - ✏︎ swamplands: tundra beavers, quaking bogs, and the improbable world of peat by edward struzik - ✏︎ far from the madding crowd by thomas hardy - a short history of nearly everything by bill bryson - the swamp: the everglades, florida, and the politics of paradise by michael grunwald - life signs: the biology of star trek by susan and robert jenkins -  ✏︎ dinner with dimaggio: memories of an american hero by dr. rock positano and john positano -  ☏ displacement by kiku hughes - reverence for life: an anthology of selected writings by albert schweitzer, edited by thomas kiernan - dean & me: a love story by jerry lewis and james kaplan  - steps in time: an autobiography by fred astaire  - seven brief lessons on physics by carlo rovelli, trans. simon carnell and erica segre - behaving as if the god in all life mattered: a new age ecology by machaelle small wright - ✏︎ leonard cohen: the mystical roots of genius by harry freedman - ✏︎ baggage: tales from a fully packed life by alan cumming - ✏︎ paul simon: the life by robert hilburn - ☞ masters of sex: the life and times of william masters and virginia johnson, the couple who taught america how to love by thomas maier - ✏︎ the flame: poems, notebooks, lyrics, drawings by leonard cohen, edited by robert faggen and alexandra pleshoyano - ✏︎ book of longing by leonard cohen - ✏︎ stranger music: selected poems and songs by leonard cohen - ☏ the beginning place by ursula k. le guin - selected poems by octavio paz, trans. g. aroul, elizabeth bishop, paul blackburn, lysander kemp, denise levertov, muriel rukeyser, mark strand, charles tomlinson, william carlos williams, monique fong wust, and the editor (eliot weinberger) - averno by louise glück - dance for two: selected essays by alan lightman - ✏︎ dostoevsky: a writer in his time by joseph frank - from sawdust to stardust: the biography of deforest kelley, star trek's dr. mccoy by terry lee rioux - ☏ the dead romantics by ashley poston - ✑ experimental writing: a guide and anthology by will cordiero and lawrence lenhart  - ☏ lessons in chemistry: a novel by bonnie garmus - ✏︎ eels: an exploration, from new zealand to the sargasso, of the world’s most mysterious fish by james prosek
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happyzenmonk · 4 years
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A 393 years old Greenland shark, the oldest vertebrate in the world
photo by Julius Nielsen
source:Mikhail Iossel, fb
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funnynewsheadlines · 6 years
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Hearing Aretha Franklin’s “I Say a Little Prayer” in the Soviet Union
Mikhail Iossel writes on the comfort of hearing Aretha Franklin’s “I Say a Little Prayer” while living in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), in the Soviet Union, in 1983. from Humor, Satire, and Cartoons https://ift.tt/2N0fuBp from Blogger https://ift.tt/2nN05JQ
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newyorker · 7 years
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This is what constant, permanent exposure to alternative reality does: it deafens and deadens you.
Mikhail Iossel, “Life Under Alternative Facts”
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"I am here to be mad, not to write." Robert Walser, a brilliant writer deeply relevant to our times, who spent the last twenty-seven years of his life in a mental institution, responding to visiting journalist's question as to why he was not writing anymore. In “The Walk,” his most famous short story, he describes a stroll through a rural landscape in the minutest of fantastic and tragically funny detail. Here he is, on that walk from Herisau to Wil, Austria, in 1939. At seventy-eight, he disappeared from that mental asylum in Herisau and later was found dead in the snow.
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"Without walking and the contemplation of nature which is connected with it, without this equally delicious and admonishing search, I deem myself lost, and I am lost. With the utmost love and attention the man who walks must study and observe every smallest living thing, be it a child, a dog, a fly, a butterfly, a sparrow, a worm, a flower, a man, a house, a tree, a hedge, a snail, a mouse, a cloud, a hill, a leaf, or no more than a poor discarded scrap of paper on which, perhaps, a dear good child at school has written his first clumsy letters. The highest and the lowest, the most serious and the most hilarious things are to him equally beloved, beautiful, and valuable. He must bring with him no sort of sentimentally sensitive self-love or quickness to take offense. Unselfish and unegoistic, he must let his careful eye wander and stroll where it will; only he must be continuously able in the contemplation and observation of things to efface himself, and to put behind him, little consider, and forget like a brave, zealous, and joyfully self-immolating front-line soldier, himself, his private complaints, needs, wants, and sacrifices. If he does not, then he walks only half attentive, with only half his spirit, and that is worth nothing."
-Robert Walser
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skunkbomb · 9 years
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I forgot to mention i've been attending readings at the University of Tampa's MFA program. I've already heard Edan Lepucki, Roxane Gay, Stefan Kiesbye, Mikhail Iossel, Rebecca Hazelton, and Brock Clarke. This was only the first three days and i'm not even counting the other awesome writers that attended. I'll keep you guys posted on who else reads!
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artworldblogmural · 2 years
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A Monthly Look at the Arts - 03/22 Where I look at the work of photojournalist Lynsey Addario, artist Garo Hakimian, photographer Mika Goodfriend, and a quick peek at the pages of Yolk, a literary journal, specifically, at a poem called "VENDÔME" by Jerome Ramcharitar, and an interview they did with Mikhail Iossel. https://www.christianfennell.com/post/myartworld-03-22 photo@WojtekJakubiec #LynseyAddario #nytimes #GaroHakimian #Imagista #KatinaGoulakos #mikagoodfriend #FraternitéSacerdotale #QuietRevolution #Wired #Yolk #JeromeRamcharitar #MikhailIossel #WojtekJakubiec #art #photography #photojournalism #poetry #litjournals #artists #writers #christianfennell #MyArtWorld
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guernicamag · 10 years
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“Son,” they said, “you’re a big boy now. Before too long, your age will be expressed in double digits. The world will not keep on hiding the unkind side of its face from you forever. It’s time for you to know the bitter truth: unfortunately, you’re a Jew.”
Necessary Evil by Mikhail Iossel - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
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combefier · 11 years
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Life is a process of gradually coming to terms with the meaning and the very concept of never-ness.
Mikhail Iossel, "Meeting an Old Friend at the Strand Far Away from Home"
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heyahennifer · 11 years
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LIFE: HOW WAS IT?
Posted by Mikhail Iossel
"When you’re young, you think there’ll be plenty of time for everything in your life: counting all the grains of sand in the Sahara Desert, seeing all the people in the world, becoming greater than Jesus and Lenin and Lomonosov and Pushkin and Einstein all rolled into one, reuniting at some point with everyone you’ve met once in your life, befriending every man, falling in love with every woman… Life is a process of gradually coming to terms with the meaning and the very concept of never-ness. Never—well, so be it. Quoth the raven: oh well, them’s the breaks. Get used to it. Get over it. Life is a perishable proposition of rapidly diminishing returns. You could’ve become this or that; you could’ve been here and there and everywhere; but that didn’t happen—and well, so be it. There won’t be, in the end of your life, a joyous, transcendentally meaningful regathering of everyone you’ve ever met on your path, with stories shared and wine flowing and laughter lilting and happiness abounding and life never-ending—well, so be it." Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/03/meeting-a-friend-at-the-strand.html#ixzz2NZWOPdXx
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