Alexander Genis (born February 11, 1953) is a Russian–American writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic. He has written more than a dozen non-fiction books.
Genis, an American citizen, resides in the New York City area. He is the father of Daniel Genis, writer and journalist.
Life and career
Genis was born in Ryazan, USSR, in 1953. After graduating from the Latvian State University in Riga, Genis immigrated to the USA in 1977 at the age of 24.
Genis is an anchorman of the weekly radio-show American Hour with Alexander Genis broadcast in Russian by Radio Liberty since the 1990s. Genis is a columnist and a contributing writer for the main liberal Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and used to be the host of the TV show Alexander Genis. Letters from America, shown on Russian TV channel "Culture".
Bibliography
Red bread (collection of essays). USA from A to Y (cultural travelogue from the outside in). Knit (autobiographical essays). Darkness and Stillness (meditations). 6 Fingers (intellectual autobiography). Candy Wrappers( analysis of classical Russian paintings). Ginger-man (culinary essays). The Tower of Babel (cultural criticism). Dovlatov and his Environs (non-fiction novel, as of 2016 it had 6 publications in Russian). Ivan Petrovich is dead (essays on modern Russian literature). Ticket to China (cultural criticism). A Particular Case (essays on writers). Portrait of the Poet: 1978–1996 : Joseph Brodsky (Essay in English and Russian).
References
External links
Red Bread on Amazon
Alexander Genis at Radio Liberty
Alexander Genis in Novaya Gazeta
Alexander Genis in IMDB
Alexander Genis in Zhurnal'nyj Zal
New York TV Interview with Alexander Genis
Moscow TV Interview with Alexander Genis
1953 births
Living people
Russian expatriates in the United States
American male journalists
Writers from New York (state) University of Latvia alumni