Alexander Genis

Alexander A Genis

Born	(1953-02-11) February 11, 1953 Ryazan', Russia
Occupation	Author and Broadcaster

Alexander Genis (born February 11, 1953) is a Russian-American writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic. He has written more than a dozen books that are non-fiction bestsellers in Russia.

Genis, an American citizen, now resides in the New York City area. His son is writer Daniel Genis.

Life and career

After graduating from Latvian State University in Riga, then – USSR, Genis immigrated to the USA in 1977 at the age of 24. His career started in NYC where he met and worked with many of the luminaries of this time: Nobel Prize in Literature winner Joseph Brodsky, writer Sergei Dovlatov, painter and writer-conceptualist Vagrich Bakhchanyan.

Genis is an anchorman of the weekly radio-show "American hour with Alexander Genis" broadcast in Russian by Radio Liberty for the last 20 years. Genis is a columnist and a contributing writer for the main liberal Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and formerly was the host of the TV show "Alexander Genis. Letters from America," shown on Russian TV channel "Culture".

Genis's books include:

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).
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).

Alexander Genis

Life and career

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