Robert Littell

A tale inspired by the life of forefront twentieth-century Russian poet Osip Mandelstam recounts his outspoken criticism of the Stalin regime, the verbal distribution of his famous "Stalin Epigram" that led to his arrest, and his subsequent exile and death in a Siberian transit camp.

A Novel

The Stalin Epigram

Alexander Olando

Dear God in heaven, while he still has a muse and an erection arrange things so the sun will simply fail to rise tomorrow morning. Amen.

They had never been lovers, though in a manner of speaking they were more intimate than lovers, by which I mean they were intimate in ways that lovemaking only scratches the surface of.

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