Tag Archives: Daniel Genis

Selling Dead Souls in an American Prison

By Robin Bates | Published: May 16, 2023

While lit mostly helped Daniel Genis handle a 10-year prison term, novels by Gogol and Thomas Mann got him into special trouble.

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Reading in Solitary Confinement

By Robin Bates | Published: May 15, 2023

Reporting on reading in prison, Genis reports that lit helped him cope with solitary confinement but didn’t always help him understand his fellow inmates.

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Reading Lit to Cope with Prison

By Robin Bates | Published: May 10, 2023

In his book about reading lit in prison, Genis talks about how novels helped him understand fellow inmates and discover his own Jewishness.

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Reading Lit to Survive Prison

By Robin Bates | Published: March 12, 2023

For Daniel Genis, books were a way of surviving 10 years in prison.

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