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Ilan Mochari

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Ilan Mochari is the author of the poetry collection PLAYTHINGS and the novel ZINSKY THE OBSCURE. His short stories and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Salamander, Hobart, Juked, J Journal, North Dakota Quarterly, The Louisville Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes, as well as the Derringer Award for crime fiction, and he has been the recipient of a Literature Artist Fellowship grant from the Somerville Arts Council.

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I'm excited to announce that my poetry collection, Playthings, is now available on Amazon and Bookshop.org.

“Ilan Mochari’s voice in Playthings is exquisite in its range, its responsiveness, its singing. These are poems to be savored and read many times,” says award-wining poet Richard Hoffman,
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Average rating: 4.26 · 62 ratings · 17 reviews · 4 distinct works
Zinsky the Obscure

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“My biological father did not teach me much, but he was right to emphasize that what women call a “relationship” is in fact a male subjugation.”
Ilan Mochari, Zinsky the Obscure

“It was clear to me that some ugly Ancient Greek must have invented both Hephaestus, the patron saint of the hideous, and Cupid, the demi-God whose arbitrary arrow-slings seemed as likely an explanation as any for the mystifying science by which females selected their gross objects of affection.”
Ilan Mochari, Zinsky the Obscure

“How alive is someone whom you haven’t seen in 13 years? And how bereaved can you possibly be – or anticipate being – over someone you’ve never loved?”
Ilan Mochari, Zinsky the Obscure

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Ilan Joey wrote: "Ilan, we, your fans are waiting, with breaths that are baited, for your next novel. Any news for us?

YOSSI"


Not yet. But when it comes, I will post it here! Thank you for asking, Yossi, and I really appreciate your support!


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Joey Gremillion Ilan, we, your fans are waiting, with breaths that are baited, for your next novel. Any news for us?

YOSSI


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