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 has written about wine for The New Yorker, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, The New York Times, and other publications.
REVIEWS
Savage Feast was one of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month. The New York Times called it “a tightly-written page turner,” and The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Vanity 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
A Talk of the Town in The New Yorker. + A defense of wine in The New York Times Op-Ed. + A very personal piece for Guardian (UK) Weekend. + A profile, for Tablet, of the uncommon owners of an uncommon hotel in Miami Beach. + A Rhone Valley travel piece for Princeton Alumni Weekly (forthcoming). + A “Roving Eye” essay for The New York Times Book Review.