Alexander Genis
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Alexander Genis
New Jersey, USA

Alexander Genis is a Russian–American writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic. He has written more than a dozen non-fiction books. Genis was born in Ryazan, Russian SFSR, in 1953. After graduating from the Latvian State University in Riga, he 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”.

Bookshelf
Gritsman
by Andrey Gritsman

“A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.” (Kafka)

A new collection of poems by Andrey Gritsman. In English.

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by Wayne Pernu

The new poetry collection from Wayne Pernu, one of the finest poets writing in English today. This is one of those rare collections that calls to mind the great masters—Donne, Keats, Yeats.

11. Iossel book
by Mikhail Iossel

Comedy and tragedy collide in stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience

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by Boris Khersonsky, Ludmila Khersonsky

Boris Khersonsky and Ludmila Khersonsky write poetry that speaks to the crisis of our time, when refugees run from bombardments, and nonstop propaganda flows from TV. The setting is Ukraine at the start of the twenty-first century, but it is eerily recognizable anywhere.

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