#  Book Launch with Askold Melnyczuk and Mary Cappello 

 



    ![Book covers for With Madonna in Kyiv and Frost Will Come](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_5_4__480x385/public/2026-11/Placeholder%20Images-33-1920x1536-web-thumbnail%20%282%29.png?itok=RNKe90jO) 

 



 

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 **November 17, 2026** 

 07:00PM - 08:30PM EST 

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 **IN-PERSON @ Brookline Booksmith**  

 [279 Harvard Street  
Coolidge Corner  
Brookline, MA 02446  
United States



 ](<https://www.google.com/maps?q=US MA Brookline 02446 279 Harvard Street Coolidge Corner>) 

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### A literary evening celebrating the releases of *With Madonna in Kyiv* and *Frost Will Come* with authors **Askold Melnyczuk** and **Mary Cappello**, in conversation with **P. Carl** at Brookline Booksmith

Full event information can be found [here](https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2026-11-17/askold-melnyczuk-and-mary-cappello-p-carl).

[Askold Melnyczuk](https://askoldmelnyczuk.net/) is a novelist, poet, essayist, translator, and editor who has, for half a century, played an active role in shaping the American literary conversation. [Mary Cappello](https://web.uri.edu/english/meet/mary-cappello/) is a literary nonfictionist, cultural theorist and educator working in the vanguard of the essay, memoir, and documentary art; she is also a Guggenheim and Berlin Prize Fellow. [P. Carl](https://emerson.edu/faculty/p-carl/) is a Senior Distinguished Artist in Residence, Department of Performing Arts, at Emerson College in Boston.

*This event is organized by* [*Brookline Booksmith*](https://www.arrowsmithpress.com/) *and co-sponsored by the* [*Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute*](https://www.huri.harvard.edu/)*.*

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