Do the old man a solid, pre-order now, and have yourself a ball in April! 5/5 www.pauldrybooks.com/products/sid...

The photo was taken in the last year of Voloshin’s life. He’s the dark, diminutive figure on the right. He looks ill, unhappy. I wish I could tell him that, 75 years after his poem appeared in a small émigré edition, @pauldrybooks.bsky.social would bring it back to life in English. 4/5

Voloshin died in 1960, his wife in 1962. I’d asked every Angeleno émigré I could find whether they had known V., even in passing. None had: it was too long ago. After years of posting pieces of his poem, I finally drew out a witness, made a loving connection—just in time. 3/5

Her parents, who had gone through German DP camps and settled in LA in 1949, befriended V. and his wife, Helen, in the ’50s, frequently hosting the couple at their home. I had, until that day, never encountered anyone who had seen V. in the flesh—not for lack of trying. 2/5

Thank you!

Out everywhere, UK included, in April of next year! Available for preorder on Amazon and Amazon UK, as well as at the publisher’s website!

Max, you should see me beaming!

Really ratchets up the sex appeal…

Ken Kesey’s “Psych Ward Nurse”

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Never ages, does it?