10/07/2026
This Saturday at the Tamizdat Book Corner: Ainsley Morse, the driving force behind Tamizdat Project’s English-language titles, including Abram Tertz’s Pkhentz and Linor Goralik’s Exodus-22.
Join us for a conversation with and a reading by Ainsley Morse, professor of Slavic literatures at the University of California San Diego.
As a literary translator, she has published:
• ”Permanent Evolution,” theoretical essays by the Formalist critic Yuri Tynianov
• ”Communiqués” by the Odesan poet Maria Galina
• the novels of early Leningrad modernist Konstantin Vaginov
• the Yugoslav surrealist-Marxist Fine Feats of the Five Cockerels Gang
She is also the author of ”Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children’s Literature,” which traces the history of a “childlike aesthetic” from early modernist experimentation through Soviet utopian visions and censorship, and into the strange partnership of children’s and underground literature.
📅 October 10, 7 pm
📍 Tamizdat Project Book Corner at White Rabbit's Books. New York, 200 West 86th Street (1 train)
🎟 Space is limited. Tickets are $10: https://whiterabbitsbooks.com/event/translation-reading-and-conversation-with-ainsley-morse-uc-san-diego-tamizdat-project/
