Savage Feast cover background. photo of a table with a white table cloth set for a feast.

SHORT BIO

Boris’s novels A Replacement Life and Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo, both New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and his memoir Savage Feast are out in paperback from HarperCollins. His new novel, The Unwanted, will be out from HarperCollins in March 2025. He is a Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at The University of Austin, and writes about wine for Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, Saveur, The New York Times, and other publications.

REVIEWS

Savage Feast was one of Amazon’s Best Books of the MonthThe New York Times called it “a tightly-written page turner,” and The Wall Street JournalWashington PostVanity Fair, and Publishers Weekly agreed: “Fishman’s immigrant saga masterfully evokes a family that survives, united by food.” Here’s Boris on NPR’s Morning Edition and in Saveur. Details here.

RECENT WRITING

An defense of wine in The New York Times Op-Ed. + A very personal piece for Guardian (UK) Weekend. + A profile, for Tablet, of Jonathan Plutzik and Lesley Goldwasser, of The Betsy in Miami Beach (forthcoming). + A Rhone Valley travel piece for Princeton Alumni Weekly (forthcoming). + A “Roving Eye” essay for The New York Times Book Review.

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