Mishka Zakharin

• Apr-2002
• / Romance
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Mishka Zakharin's premier fiction anthology, "Of Gilded Hearts and Girded Loins," is a collection of stories unified by the common threads of humor and romance - or, anyway, prurience.... Falling somewhere between Dostoyevski and Marx (specifically G...

• Mar-2003
• / Literary
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• May-2004
• / General Fiction
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"Mishka Zakharin's latest anthology, ""Mishka, Mishka,"" is really like five poetry collections in one...

""Mishka's Polonaise #6 (in F)""--mellifluous musings on the love of lyricism and the lyricism of love...

""Mishkabury Tales"" collects a ...

• May-2006
• / General Fiction
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Mishka Zakharin presents two of his poetry anthologies -- 'Big, Naughty Monkey' and 'The Mad God' -- in a single, hardcover edition. . . both written in the same approximate time frame, yet each expressing its own distinct tone... an interesting mix ...

• Aug-2010
• / General Fiction
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In ‘The Masticator!’ Zakharin features 11 works of short fiction, including stories, dialogues, and an historical play in three acts. Zakharin’s unique perspective has been described by some as beatnik… others — well, ju...

• Jan-2011
• / General Fiction
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Mishka Zakharin's newest ebook collection, 'Enigmatatas and Eclecticicities' is… well, enigmatic and eclectic!… Compiling an odd and amusing variety of short fiction and random thoughts, Mishka's musings stray from the sexy and romantic...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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Zakharin's parody of Tolstoy's novel of the same name-but with characters and elements added from various other sources of Russian literature (including Dostoyevsky's 'The Double' and Nabokov's 'Lolita'), a...

• Jan-2014
• / Fantasy
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In a mythical land, whose geography and populace are inspired by the human digestive tract, Zakharin spins a tale of truly fantastical pun-ishment… who knows what dangers may lurk-whence one dares to venture beyond the Alveolar Ridge…Th...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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Zakharin's parody of Dostoyevsky's classic novel 'Crime and Punishment'-also including elements from Dostoyevsky's novel 'The Brothers Karamazov' and his short story 'The Dream of a Ridiculous Man'-but with the grittier, more adult themes (such as...

• Mar-2014
• / General Fiction
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'Musk Oxen!'? Oh, no, no-it's all just completely true! (Excepting those bits contrived, exaggerated, adulterated, spurious, or generally skewed in validity… of course.) In the tradition of 'The Masticator (or: Chew on This for Awhile!)' and '...

• Oct-2014
• / Fantasy
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In his latest short story anthology, Zakharin answers (or at least addresses) all of the Big Questions in Life: the Time Loop of the Very Existence of All Things [Poopy Derringer and the Singing Monkey of Death]; demonic underpants [Selected Short...

• Jun-2015
• / General Fiction
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Natalya s Tale is a picaresque reflective of Arthurian sagas though with a cannibalistic prostitute, rather than a knight, as the hero. Tired of turning tricks and eating babies, Natalya Yvain finds herself lapsed into the Otherworld, a shadow of our...

• Aug-2015
• / Fantasy
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Unlike other Books of the Dead, The Mishkan Book of the Dead does not merely concern itself with the "hereafter" or the "in-between" - but delves into the "there-before" (as it were) and the "off-to-the-left-and-sort-of-sticking-out-from-behind-the-c...

• Sep-2015
• / Literary
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THE GREEN LAMP -- its title inspired by a 19th Century, Russian literary journal of the same name -- brings to light a wonderfully insightful collection of what can only be categorized as ‘Americanized Russian Lit.’ Motivated by his love of R...

• Jan-2020
• / Fantasy
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Weaving together elements from several of Shakespeare's plays, More than Kin and Less than Kind is a tale of love, murder, a throne usurped, and revenge - recast in a setting of Slavic myth and legend. The familiar motivations and actions of characte...

• Feb-2020
• / Magical Realism
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Up the Gnorfbler-tree...Mr. Kalidupface - self-styled Renaissance man and inadvertent metaphysical wanderer - finds himself lured into the pursuit of an elusive prey: the mystery woman Lucie Devereaux...Part mystery, part fantasy, part romance, p...