Boris Fish­man was born in Min­sk, Belarus. He is the author of the nov­els A Replace­ment Life (win­ner of the VCU Cabell First Nov­el­ist Award and the Amer­i­can Library Asso­ci­a­tion’s Sophie Brody Medal) and Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo. Both were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Sav­age Feast, a fam­i­ly mem­oir told through recipes, will be out in paper­back in ear­ly 2020. His jour­nal­ism has appeared in The New York­er, The New York Times Mag­a­zine, and many oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. He lives in New York and teach­es cre­ative writ­ing at Prince­ton University.

Boris's choices include:

Books

Sophie's Choice, William Styron

King of the Jews, Leslie Epstein

Netflix etc

Give Me Liberty

Two Lovers, James Gray

Better Call Saul

Music

Def Leppard, Stand up, Kick Life into Motion

Podcast

I'll Drink to That

Poetry

Lucky, Tony Hoagland