Bob Blaisdell

Bob Blaisdell is Professor of English at the City University of New York’s Kingsborough College. He is a reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Christian Science Monitor, and the editor of more than three dozen Dover literature and poetry collections. He lives in New York City.

How Chekhov Made Sense of His Surroundings Through Writing Short Stories

Bob Blaisdell on Chronicling the Literary and Personal Life of One of Russia’s Most Prolific Writers

December 9, 2022 By Bob Blaisdell

Reading the First Drafts of
Anna Karenina

Bob Blaisdell on Tolstoy's Creation and Pushkin's Influence

August 6, 2020 By Bob Blaisdell

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