Davíd Lavie is a novelist, playwright, and creator of a YA publishing and educational platform called Storied. He is also the translator of a trilogy by Mikhail Zoshchenko, a twentieth-century Russian writer and satirist. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Lavie holds a degree in English literature from Brandeis University and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

Photograph by Yevgeny Skaradinsky.

Odessa, Odessa

An Audio Reading

by Davíd Lavie

“It is a city of sea, sun, boulevards, strolling beauties, life-altering food, color and culture, crime and literature, music and danger—the Pearl by the Sea that richly deserves the moniker.” Written and read by Davíd Lavie, “Odessa, Odessa” is a seductive ode to the city’s truths and legends.

Engineering by Tomissin Beck, sound design by Collin Blendell.


Read on:

“Odessa, Mon Amour,” an essay by James Salter