The Man Who Would Not Bow

The Man Who Would Not Bow

By Askold Melnyczuk

Released October 19, 2021

The cast of characters in these eight stories includes a journalist in a Middle Eastern war zone, an unemployed actor struggling with elder care, members of a commune planning to kidnap a priest, a torturer’s mother and, finally, Nikolai Gogol wrestling with his angels and demons.

Askold Melnyczuk has published four novels which have variously been named a New York Times Notable, an LA Times Best Book of the Year, and an Editor’s Choice by the American Library Association’s Booklist. He has received a three-year Lila Wallace-Readers’ Digest Award in Fiction, and the George Garret Award from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) for his contributions to the literary community. He is the founding editor of the literary magazine Agni, and is the editor and publisher of Arrowsmith Press which he founded in 2006. Currently he is professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.