Yuriy Tarnawsky has authored some three dozen books of poetry, fiction, drama, essays, and translations in English and Ukrainian, including the novels Meningitis and Three Blondes and Death, the collections of short stories Short Tails and Crocodile Smiles, three collections of mininovels Like Blood in Water, The Future of Giraffes, and View of Delft comprising The Placebo Effect Trilogy, a collection of Heuristic poetry Modus Tollens, and the book of essays Claim to Oblivion. He was born in Ukraine but was raised and educated in the West. An engineer and linguist by training, he has worked as a computer scientist, specializing in Artificial Intelligence, at IBM Corporation and as a professor of Ukrainian literature and culture at Columbia University. For his contribution to Ukrainian literature, in 2008, he was awarded the Prince Yaroslav the Wise Order of Merit by Ukrainian government. He resides with his wife Karina in the New York City metropolitan area.
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Female barbers attached to a pair of scissors that won't stop, women who can't conceal hard-earned wads of hundred dollar bills sticking up under their polka dot bikini ...
A woman possessed by an inexplicable hatred for her husband plans his death on their forthcoming trip to Mexico. It is unwittingly facilitated by a young woman with whom the husband falls in love. ...
Driven by an unquenchable thirst for the unknown and boundless imagination, a boy learns about the nature of life in an idyllic pre-WW II Poland and nightmarish WW II Ukraine. Life in Yuriy Tarnaws...
Struggling with your iambs and pentameters? Characters and plots? Have you hit the concrete wall of a writer's block? Or are you having the time of your life seeing your pen trace out graceful mean...
Fiction. The themes of alienation, abandonment, and fear of death, developed in Like Blood in Water and elaborated in The Future of Giraffes, the first and second books of The Placebo Effect Trilog...
Fiction. The themes of alienation, abandonment, and fear of death, developed in Like Blood in Water, the first book of The Placebo Effect Trilogy, are picked up in the second book, The Future of Gi...
Fiction. The themes of alienation, abandonment, and fear of death that permeate The Future of Giraffes and The View of Delft, second and third books of The Placebo Effect Trilogy, are originally br...
A body gradually shrinks to an eye that sees its own end. A man screams with pain as if singing an Indian raga to entertain others for a pittance. Another man tries to force his body to adapt the s...
Literary Nonfiction. Are you still wondering who is that boy at the beginning of Bergman's Persona and what the damn movie is all about? And what is the point of those near-silent seven minutes at ...
