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Selected Publications, 2020-2025
BOOKS
Creating Anna Karenina: Tolstoy and the Birth of Literature鈥檚 Most Enigmatic Heroine
(Pegasus, 2020)
Chekhov Becomes Chekhov: The Emergence of a Literary Genius, 1886-1887 (Pegasus, 2022)
Well, Mr. Mudrick Said 鈥� A Memoir (Berkshire Publishing Group, 2021) [originally published
in 2011]
EDITOR
Chekhov on Writing: The Mentor, The Self-Critic, Literary Questions and Fictional
Writers (Dover Publications, 2025)
Ruskin on Art and Artists (Dover Publications, 2025)
鈥淕od Sees the Truth but Waits鈥� and Other Moral Tales by Leo Tolstoy (Dover Publications,
2024)
Tolstoy in Search of Truth and Meaning: Wisdom from His Letters, Novels, Essays, and
Conversations (Ixia Press, 2024)
Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard (University Press of Mississippi, 2023)
Dreams: A Literary Anthology (Dover Publications, 2023)
Female Abolitionists (Dover Publications 2021)
鈥淭he Lady with the Dog鈥� and Other Love Stories by Anton Chekhov (Dover Publications
2021)
ESSAYS
鈥淧apa Vronsky鈥檚 Big Serbian Adventure鈥� (Tolstoy Studies Journal)
鈥淐hekhov Goes Solar鈥� (The Russia File, March 25, 2024, Russian Life)
鈥淵ou鈥檙e Such a Character: The Knausgaard Behind Knausgaard鈥� (Los Angeles Review of
Books, 30 December 2023)
鈥淥de to Tom Clark,鈥� Splice Today (16 May 2022)
鈥淢arvin Mudrick Is 100鈥� (Los Angeles Review of Books, July 17, 2021)
ARTICLES
Introduction to excerpts of Max Schott鈥檚 novel Ralph (Santa Barbara Independent, October
2, 2025)
Komar and Melamid: A Lesson in History, exhibit at Rutgers University (Russian Life,
Spring 2023)
鈥溾�榃riting Isn鈥檛 a Sacred Activity, It Is an Ordinary Activity鈥�: A Conversation with
Karl Ove Knausgaard,鈥� Los Angeles Review of Books (8 January 2021)
TRANSLATIONS
Chapbook, short story translation (Russian to English), Kashtanka: A Bilingual Reader
by Anton Chekhov (Storyworkz, Inc., 2024)
And introduction to the short story 鈥淭he Beauties鈥� by Anton Chekhov (Russian Life,
March-April 2020)
And introduction to the short story 鈥淭yphus鈥� by Anton Chekhov (Russian Life blog,
23 April 2020)
LITERARY PODCAST GUEST
The History of Literature Podcast, #597, 鈥淜arl Ove Knausgaard (with Bob Blaisdell)鈥�
(March 25); reposted on Literary Hub (March 27, 2024)
Books of Some Substance, Nick Scandy, Episode 94, 鈥淎nton Chekhov鈥檚 鈥楧ifficult People鈥�
with Bob Blaisdell鈥� (2023)
The History of Literature, 鈥淢y Last Book with Bob Blaisdell鈥� (8 May 2023)
鈥淭he History of Literature with Jacke Wilson鈥� (Chekhov Becomes Chekhov) (15 December
2022)
REVIEWS
Muybridge by Guy Delisle (Christian Science Monitor Weekly, May 8, 2025)
100 Reasons Why Leo Tolstoy Cried by Katya Gushchina (Tolstoy Studies Journal)
Wagner and the Creation of the Ring by Michael Downes (Christian Science Monitor Weekly,
September 1, 2025)
The Last Soviet Artist by Victoria Lomasko (Russian Life, Summer 2025)
Chekhov in Context, edited by Yuri Corrigan (Russian Review, January 2024)
Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds by Tatyana Gershkovich
(Tolstoy Studies Journal, 2023)
鈥淲hen Tolstoy Met Trollope,鈥� on Sophie Ratcliffe's Loss, A Love Story: Imagined Histories
and Brief Encounters (Los Angeles Review of Books, April 17, 2024)
Conversations with Dostoevsky: On God, Russia, Literature, and Life by George Pattison
(Russian Life, Summer 2024)
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
by Benjamin Nathans (Russian Life, Summer 2024)
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel鈥檚 Messiah by
Charles King (The Christian Science Monitor Weekly, 23 December, 2024)
Editing Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy: Mikhail Katkov and the Great Russian Novel
by Susanne Fusso (Tolstoy Studies Journal, Vol. XXXIV)
Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their
Answers Matter by Gary Saul Morson (Los Angeles Review of Books, 17 May 2023)
The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food by Darra Goldstein (Russian Life