Notes from Cyberground Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling [Paperback]

Mikhail Iossel is an intense and thoughtful force for decency in the world. George Saunders

Iossels writing is full of rage, enlightening observations, and oft witty humor . . . as he watches his beloved Americaa beacon of hope during his Soviet youthcoming undone by Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putins influence over him. Times of Israel

Mikhail Iossel's Notes from Cyberground is our social media De Profundis with a touch of J'Accuse. Thoughtful, furious, eloquent, these posts are the diary of a writer who left the Soviet Union, stayed in touch with the horrors of the Putin reign, and after the 2016 elections, has experienced a hideous deja vu: a nightmare for someone who knows first hand what a dictatorship looks like. Francine Prose

Long after the present rulers are deposed, this treasury of invective will deserve to be read on its literary merits, just as we still read Popes and Swifts satires of their contemporaries. The comparisons between Putin and Trump are especially priceless, as are Iossels portrayals of his/our liberal befuddlement. Phillip Lopate

[Iossel's] unique perspective as an immigrant from the Soviet Union distinguishes his blistering critiques ... of Donald Trump from many other recent anti-Trump books.... The author follows American politics from Election Day 2016 through October 2018.... A vigorous call for Americans to defeat 'the stubborn virus of trumpism in its bloodstream.' Kirkus Reviews

Notes from Cybergroundfinds [Mikhail Iossel] righteously grappling, in diary form, with the ongoing aftermath of the 2016 American presidential election, the result of which is bringing back all the wrong kinds of memories for someone who has seen authoritarianism close up before. 'Lets give Trump credit for keeping the flames of our indignation with him alive and burning bright,' Iossel writes, and in a very different way his cathartic book does the same. Montreal Gazlc¦