Leeore Schnairsohn

Leeore Schnairsohn holds an MFA from NYU (Fiction) and a PhD from Princeton (Comparative Literature), and his stories, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Slavic and East European Journal, Inventory, and Portals, among others. He has also written in academic contexts on the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, as well as other topics in Slavic and Comp Lit.

The Law of Return

My father was playing guitar with Guns N’ Roses when he died in a nightclub fire. The club was an old airline hangar packed with polyurethane to hold in the A/C, which was running against an epic Florida summer. Someone, it was conjectured, lit a cigarette in defiance of the law. Meanwhile my dad was playing Izzy Stradlin’s old parts: rhythm lines, easy to miss. His fate was sealed in seconds. As was yours.
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