Gary Shteyngart
Absurdistan
Novels about “the immigrant experience” are usually sentimental tales of pluck and dignity. Gary Shteyngart‘s Absurdistan is not one of those novels. The hero of the book is a 300 pound Russian named Misha Vainberg who boasts that he has huge loft apartment in Manhattan and a Puerto Rican-Mexican-Irish-German stripper girlfriend from the Bronx. Shteyngart […]
Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart set his new novel, Super Sad True Love Story, in a dystopian, not-too-distant future where books are passe and social media reigns supreme ? just like the present, only worse. Shteyngart tells Kurt how the reality of America’s decline ended up outpacing his fiction and why love in the face of authoritarian systems […]
Gary Shteyngart on his ‘Super Sad True Love Story’
Gary Shteyngart has been at the top of the New York Times bestseller list, is one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists, and was just selected for the New Yorker’s ’20 under 40′ list. We talk with him about his new book, ‘Super Sad True Love Story.’
Gary Shteyngart & Amanda Palmer
Kurt Andersen talks to Gary Shteyngart about his new novel Super Sad True Love Story. It’s a dystopian, social media-plagued epic that reads like a hilarious 1984. An 11-year-old from Rhode Island becomes an international pop star by continuing the musical traditions of his Cape Verdean heritage. And Amanda Palmer of the band Dresden Dolls […]