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Vladimir Mayakovsky: Early Soviet Rap Star

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Gary Shteyngart has called Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky “a genius, a hipster, a shill, and the first and only early-Soviet rap star.” Michael Almereyda’s new book about Mayakovsky’s life and work Night Wraps the Sky.

Event:
Michael Almereyda will be reading tonight, Wed. 5/28
7 pm at 192 Books
192 10th Ave. (at 21st St.) in Chelsea
More info available here


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