Boris Fishman
From HarperCollins Order
News
Boris's novels, both New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and memoir are out in paperback from HarperCollins. He is at work on a new novel about a family in flight from civil war. From 2015-22, he taught creative writing at Princeton and the University of Montana. In 2023, he will launch a series of private writing workshops called Tears & Glory.
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.
Selected Writing
Essay on male friendship after 40 for The New York Times. + Long piece on Ukraine for Tablet Magazine. + A profile, for Travel + Leisure, of Northern California's Russian River Valley. + On Dostoevsky for The New York Times Book Review. + A review of George Saunders' A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, for the Times Literary Supplement (UK).