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Michael Idov


Born
in Latvia
July 09, 1976

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Michael Idov is a novelist, director, and screenwriter. A Latvian-born American raised in Riga under Soviet occupation, he moved to New York after graduating from the University of Michigan. His writing career began at New York magazine, where his features won three National Magazine Awards. Michael has also been the editor-in-chief of GQ Russia. He is the author of Ground Up and Dressed Up for a Riot. Michael has worked on numerous film and TV projects, including Londongrad, Deutschland 83, Leto, and The Humorist. Along with his wife and screenwriting partner, Lily, they divide their time between Los Angeles, Berlin, and Portugal.

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An Interview with Time Out New York...

...with a bonus section about coffee, in which the author skillfully goads me into calling Starbucks "shit":

The Coffeeshop of Horrors [Time Out:]
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“Institutions can’t be moral. Countries can’t be moral. Only people can. And it’s a rather lovely rarity”
― Michael Idov, The Collaborators
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“The man himself-tall, large, and bald as a knee”
― Michael Idov, The Cormorant Hunt
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“I am an immigrant, as you know. So I know I'm supposed to be grateful. And I am. Is this a perfect country? No. Can it be 100 years from now? Maybe. It's the only one that aspires to treat humans as a species.”
― Michael Idov, The Collaborators
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