{{Short description|Author and broadcaster (b. 1953)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Alexander Genis | image = Генис, Александр Александрович.jpg | caption = Genis in 2018 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|02|11}} | birth_place = Ryazan', Russia | occupation = Author, broadcaster, cultural critic | children = Daniel | website = }} '''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.<ref name="gross">{{cite news|date=March 18, 2015|title=Released From Prison, 'Apologetic Bandit' Writes About Life Inside|url=https://www.npr.org/2015/03/18/393832866/released-from-prison-apologetic-bandit-writes-about-life-inside|work=Fresh Air|agency=NPR}}</ref>
==Life and career==
Genis was born in Ryazan, Russian SFSR, in 1953.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40156700|title=Red Bread|last=Ziolokowski|first=Margaret|date=Spring 2001|journal=World Literature Today|volume=75|issue=2|page=389 |doi=10.2307/40156700 |jstor=40156700 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> After graduating from the Latvian State University in Riga, he immigrated to the USA in 1977 at the age of 24.<ref name="genis1">Genis, Alexander (2018). "The illusion of freedom: propaganda and the informational swamp". ''Russian Journal of Communication''. 10(2-3): 290-295. {{doi|10.1080/19409419.2018.1533423}}</ref> Genis is an anchorman of the weekly radio-show ''American Hour with Alexander Genis'', broadcast in Russian by Radio Liberty since the 1990s.<ref name="genis1"/><ref>{{cite journal|last=DeBlasio|first=Alyssa|title=Russkoe zarubezh΄e: Antologiia sovremennoi filosofskoi mysli by Mikhail Sergeev|journal=Slavic Review|publisher=Cambridge University Press|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26844375|date=Fall 2019|volume=78|issue=3|pages=877–879 |doi=10.1017/slr.2019.215 |jstor=26844375 }}</ref> 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".<ref name="genis1"/>
In September 2024, Genis was listed in Russia as a foreign agent.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.golosameriki.com/a/russia-labels-genis-a-foreign-agent/7802196.html|title=Минюст признал «иноагентами» Александра Гениса и центр «Досье»|work=Voice of America|date=September 27, 2024|language=en}}</ref> His new book in 2025 about totalitarian regimes was inspired by Dmitry Muratov and is all about Vladimir Putin without mentioning him - ''"In this book, of course, there is no word “Ukraine,” no “war with Ukraine,” and no “Putin.” But, on the other hand, the whole book is just about that."''<ref>[https://theins.ru/podkasty/278125 «Когда страна называется родиной, она начинает убивать людей»: Генис о фашизме, Путине и Трампе], The Insider, January 22nd 2025</ref>
==Bibliography==
* ''fashizmy'', 2025<ref>[https://freedomletters.org/books/fashizmy fashizmy], {{ISBN|9781998447947}}</ref> *''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<ref>[http://www.novayagazeta.ru/columns/74403.html Без Довлатова, А. Генис, 02.09.2016]</ref>). *''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== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.amazon.com/dp/5717200501 Red Bread on Amazon] * [http://www.svobodanews.ru/archive/ru_bz_otb_ut/latest/896/210.html Alexander Genis at Radio Liberty] * [http://www.novayagazeta.ru/search/?siteurl=www.novayagazeta.ru%2F&_fixUTF8post=%D0%B0%C3%A4&cx=016098766303686439210%3Aweum4-_ub8k&sa=Search&cof=FORID%3A11&q=%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81#937 Alexander Genis in Novaya Gazeta] * [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0951292/ Alexander Genis in IMDB] * [http://magazines.russ.ru/authors/g/genis/ Alexander Genis in Zhurnal'nyj Zal] * [http://www.runyweb.com/articles/culture/literature/aleksander-genis-article.html New York TV Interview with Alexander Genis] * [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5779784474153473297# Moscow TV Interview with Alexander Genis]
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