1. Daniel Genis was born on August 2,1978 and is a Russian-American journalist, writer, and media person.
37 Facts About Daniel Genis
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Daniel Genis was born in New York City to Alexander and Irina Genis, only a few months after their emigration from the Soviet Union, in 1977.
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Daniel Genis's father, Alexander Genis is a Russian writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic.
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Daniel Genis was exposed to literature and the arts from a young age, mixing with artists and intellectuals, including Russian ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, Umberto Eco, Norman Mailer, Joseph Brodsky, and Czech film director Milos Forman.
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Daniel Genis graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1996, along with other prominent classmates such as Harry Siegel, Jessica Valenti, and Kelly Karbacz.
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Daniel Genis continued his education at New York University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in History and French in 1999.
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Daniel Genis spent one year studying at the University of Copenhagen in 1999.
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Daniel Genis developed an interest during this time in antiquarian bookshops and specifically, eighteenth and nineteenth century editions of Greek and Roman classic literature.
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Daniel Genis's tasks entailed setting manuscripts into digital versions and, after two years, Genis ended with an editing credit on The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film.
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In 2001, Daniel Genis traded in his publishing career for a life of crime to feed a raging heroin appetite.
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Daniel Genis had not only shared with DeFeo the horror of substance addiction, but both hailed from Amityville as well.
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Daniel Genis currently has a bi-weekly column at Vice, titled "In the Margins".
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Daniel Genis has collaborated with fellow drug addict and convict Michael Alig.
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Daniel Genis remarks that his authentic education as a reader and writer began not while he was a history major or working at a literary agency in Manhattan, but at the Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville, New York; where Daniel Genis read 1,046 books.
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Daniel Genis kept a diary of his readings, numbering and annotating each entry.
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Daniel Genis read for practical knowledge and for the sake of his own sanity, reading an assortment of books ranging from incarceration memoirs by Malcolm X to classic literature written by James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Fyodor Dostoevsky and at his father's request, Ulysses.
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Additionally, Daniel Genis read In Search of Lost Time alongside two academic guidebooks full of French notations and a dictionary, stating that no other novel gave him as much appreciation for his time in prison.
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The tri-lingual Daniel Genis was often given the task of translating from Russian to English, in exchange for commissary money.
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For instance, Daniel Genis was tasked to translate his father's work for the American publication Read Russia.
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Daniel Genis recently wrote about prison weightlifting and its benefits for Deadspin magazine.
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Additionally, Daniel Genis developed a taste for cooking and has since written on the topic of cooking in prison for the Daily Beast and the publication KCRW, discussing the variable cooking opportunities depending on the security levels of one's prison.
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In several articles since his release, Daniel Genis has explored the theme of the religion in prison.
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Daniel Genis sold his forthcoming memoirs, titled Sentence, to Penguin Books in the summer of 2014.
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Daniel Genis's writings have appeared in Gothamist, Suddeutsche Zeitung, The Daily Beast, Moscow Times, Vice, Paris Review, The Washington Post, New York Daily News, Thrillist, Deadspin, The Fix, Testosterone Nation, Chicago Tribune, Minneapolis Star, and The Guardian online.
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Daniel Genis wrote an article for Vice entitled, "New York State's Scariest Prison", concerning the escapees at Clinton Correctional Facility in June 2015.
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Daniel Genis appeared on NBC Universal's Deadline in June 2015 to discuss Clinton's escape, CNN's Newday and was quoted by The Buffalo News in its article "Escaping prison, surviving the wild: the journey of Matt and Sweat".
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Daniel Genis published his fifth article in Newsweek in 2015, continuing to explore his interest in Chinese art.
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Daniel Genis profiled the gallery owner who is integral to the evolution in this art movement's reputation in "Eli Klein on Riding the Wave China's Contemporary Art Scene" for Klein Sun Gallery in Chelsea, New York.
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Previously, Daniel Genis has written extensively on the celebrated Chinese artist Zhang Dali.
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Daniel Genis reviewed the art opening Michael Alig had in three galleries in one night.
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Daniel Genis has written for numerous German, Russian, and Austrian newspapers, including The Moscow Times and Suddeutsche Zeitung.
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Daniel Genis has featured on multiple radio talk shows, such as National Public Radio, discussing subjects concerning weightlifting and masculinity in prison.
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Daniel Genis answered questions for two hours after speaking about life ethics.
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Daniel Genis's talk, titled "Why Terrorists Weep: The Socio-Cultural Practices of Jihadi Militant", brings attention to his writings on culture inside American prisons.
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Daniel Genis was voted Employee of the Month by Vice Magazine in September 2014.
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Daniel Genis received Rookie of the Year award by Deadspin and was nominated for Deadspin's Hall of Fame in 2014.
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In June 2003, five months before his arrest, Daniel Genis married Petra Szabo, a photographer and instructor of Vinyasa and Forrest yoga.