Afternoon with the Author: Askold Melnyczuk

December 5 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

This program is free with admission or with the purchase of the book in our gift shop for $49.95. Purchasing the book includes both admission to the museum and the program.

Join award-winning author Askold Melnyczuk for an insightful look into With Madonna in Kyiv, his newly published collection of essays, reviews, and remembrances, followed by a short reading and a Q&A session.

Collected here for the first time are selected essays, reviews, and remembrances by the award-winning Askold Melnyczuk—novelist, poet, essayist, translator, and editor—who has, for half a century, played an active role in shaping the American literary conversation. Articulating an unwavering faith in the civilizing power of literature, Melnyczuk’s With Madonna in Kyiv brings together meditations on the literary arts alongside recollections of writer-friends Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Oksana Zabuzhko, and others. This ardent, wide-ranging volume also includes pieces on writers such as Samuel Beckett, Grace Paley, Elias Khoury, Julian Barnes, Milan Kundera, Olga Tokarczuk, Delmore Schwartz, Alvaro Mutis, Orhan Pamuk, Chinua Achebe, Lesia Ukrainka, Vasyl Stus, and Volodymyr Dibrova.
Free with admission or the purchase of the book
The Icon Museum and Study Center, 203 Union St
Clinton, MA 01510 United States
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