Career
He has written more than a dozen books that are non-fiction bestsellers in Russia. Genis, an American citizen, resides in the New York City area. He is the father of Daniel Genis, writer and journalist.
After graduating from the Latvian State University in Riga, then in the Soviet Union, Genis immigrated to the United States of America 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 television show Alexander Genis.
Letters from America, shown on Russian television channel "Culture". Genis"s books include:
Red bread (collection of essays).
United States of America 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). 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).