Bob Blaisdell on When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Bob Blaisdell, author of Chekhov Becomes Chekhov: The Emergence of a Literary Genius.

Bob Blaisdell is Professor of English at the City University of New York’s Kingsborough College and the author of Creating Anna Karenina. 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, including a collection of Chekhov’s love stores. He lives in New York City.