A collection of short stories in Russian, which originally appeared in Russian-language periodicals in Moscow, New York, and Los Angeles, In English translation, they subsequently appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, and Daily Bruin. S everal of them were included in the Academic Reader on World Political Satire (Hastings Publishing House) and How to Read Better and Faster (Harper and Row)
An author and professor of Russian at Hunter College in NYC, a three-time recipient of fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, in addition to his twelve books, his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Partisan Review, and the North American Review. "