Emil Draitser - Selected Essays and Short Fiction

Selected Essays and Short Fiction

• "Oh My God, My Name's Not on Any of Those Lists," Los Angeles Times, 1976.
• "He Recalls the Soviet System and Goes Buggy," Los Angeles Times, 1977.
• "Let's See... a Socko Ending to This Disease Might Be...", Los Angeles Times, 1980.
• "Would You Buy a Used Soul From This Man,” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 1983.
• "He Won't Make It," Studies in Contemporary Satire, Summer 1987.
• "The Supervisor of the Sea," Midstream, October 1988.
• "My First Ticket," The New Press Literary Quarterly, Summer/Fall 1995.
• "Clown," Confrontation, Fall 1997 (Awarded New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship).
• "American Gospozha,” American Writing, 1998
• ”Dvorkin”, International Quarterly, Fall 1999.
• “Zugzwang,” The Kenyon Review, Summer/Fall 1999.
• “Wedding in Brighton Beach” in Intersections: Fiction and Poetry from The Banff Centre for the Arts, 2000.
• “The Dark Copy,” Prism International (Canada) (Fall 2000).
• “Clouds,” The Literary Review, Spring 2001.
• “Faithful Masha” Partisan Review, Summer 2001 (Awarded New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship)
• “Directions” The New Renaissance, Fall 2001.
• “No Kin, No Kith,” Partisan Review, January 2003.
• “The Death of Stalin,” Michigan Review Quarterly, Spring 2003 (selected as "Notable" in the Best American Essays of the year)
• “On the Commissars, Cosmopolites, and the Inventors of Electric Bulbs,” The North American Review, Nov-Dec 2004..