![]() ![]() He was the winner of the Moscow Komsomol Prize and French prize Imaginales 2019, and was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Award. ![]() The Tool and the Butterflies, Lipskerov's eagerly anticipated English language debut, is not just a darkly comedic exploration of post-Soviet attitudes towards gender and sexuality, but also a historically and socially grounded narrative rich in naturalistic dialogue and everyday detail, and an engaging story of family and what matters most in life, in the grandest tradition of Russian literature.ĭmitry Lipskerov is a playwright and author whose novels have been met with international success due to their vivid, intense portrayal of Russia through both fabulism and realism. Thus begins a novel both funny and absurd, in which characters come together across disparate social strata and with differing goals to weave the fate of a universe familiar yet fantastical, a perfect satire of the madness of Russian society today. The protagonist awakens one morning bereft of his tool and the tool, which re-appears, sentient and in a small village far away, without his man. Taking a page from Gogol’s satirical story “The Nose,” wherein the protagonist loses his aforementioned facial feature, Lipskerov's novel transposes such a loss onto a more delicate organ. Iratov, whose virile world is flipped upside-down. In this satirical, phantasmagorical novel by a star of contemporary Russian literature, Lipskerov writes about an aging man trying to find his place in modern society despite significant damage to his ego… and his “tool.”ĭmitry Lipskerov, an award-winning Russian writer compared throughout his career to Mikhail Bulgakov and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, focuses his unbridled imagination on the story of wealthy, satisfied Mr. Follow them online at and subscribe to their sporadic opinions/updates through their newsletter, Out of This World.Translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Wheeler KB is represented by Annie DeWitt at The Shipman Agency. Currently, their passion lies in public speaking workshop facilitation consulting businesses, organizations, and individuals in their areas of interest and projects that merge art and socio-political movement work. In the realm of artivism, KB served as Project Lead for the Winter Storm Project curated Do You Want a Revolution: ATX Artists on the Carceral State and Watch Dog: a zine about community surveillance and policing facilitated a workshop where youth created video poems on policing in Austin, Texas schools (which can be viewed here) and hosted a variety show to raise funds for trans people’s gender affirming care. For two years, KB was the Program Coordinator of the Gender and Sexuality Center at UT Austin, where they founded the Black Queer & Trans Collective and co-led the President’s LGBTQIA+ Committee. In a span of five years, they founded and led two nonprofits with friends and community members to advance LGBTQIA+ justice and nurture/amplify marginalized artists in Central Texas. KB’s background in nonprofit management, student affairs, and K-12 teaching informs their cultural work. KB’s poem “ Good Grief” won the Academy of American Poets 2022 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize. They have earned fellowships from PEN America, Lambda Literary, Tin House, The Anderson Center, and The Watering Hole among others. Magazine, and others.Ĭurrently, KB is a National Endowment of the Arts fellow MFA candidate at The University of Texas at Austin Poet-in-Residence at Civil Rights Corps and at work on their debut art installation Freedom House: An Exhibition. ![]() KB’s debut full-length poetry collection Freedom House (Deep Vellum, 2023) has been recommended by Vogue, Autostraddle, Ms. KB’s chapbook How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022) won the Saguaro Poetry Prize and was named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in Literature. ![]() Their writing is featured in, HuffPost, Poetry Magazine, Teen Vogue, Poetry Society of America, Oxford American, American Poetry Review, Electric Literature, Okayplayer, and elsewhere. KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans writer, cultural worker, and artist from Texas. ![]()
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