6.30 pm | 8.00 pm READING with MIKHAIL IOSSEL and CHANAN TIGAY

Museu do Chiado
Rua Serpa Pinto, 4

Mikhail Iossel, the Leningrad-born author of the story collection Every Hunter Wants
to Know (W.W. Norton) and co-editor of the anthologies Amerika: Russian Writers
View the United States (Dalkey Archive, 2004) and Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New
Russia (Tin House, 2010), is a professor of English/Creative Writing at Concordia
University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada – and the founding director of the Summer
Literary Seminars international program. His stories, in English and in translation
to a number of other languages, have appeared in NewYorker.com, The Literarian,
Agni Review, The North American Review, Boulevard, Best American Short Stories, and
elsewhere.

Chanan Tigay is the author of The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s
Oldest Bible (Ecco/HarperCollins), and two long works of nonfiction, “The Special
Populations Unit: Arab Soldiers in Israel’s Army” (McSweeney’s) and “Nuclear
Meltdown,” released on the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear
disaster in Japan. His journalism has appeared in publications including The New
Yorker, The Atlantic, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, the San
Francisco Chronicle and The Jerusalem Post. He is assistant professor of creative
writing at San Francisco State University.


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