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Gary Shteyngart United States of America PWF 2004
"Yes, we all know the kind of person I'm talking about. Blood shot eyes? Porcupine hair? Uneven bottom teeth? Great big potato nose? Thirty-ruble sunglasses from a metro kiosk? Of course - all of it."
A literary symbol of the immigrant age, in the spirit of Saul Bellow and Henry Roth, Shteyngart's novel The Russian Debutante's Handbook received the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction.
"Our language has become as impoverished as our country and it's often hard
to find the right term, even if you're willing to pay in hard currency for it."
"Shylock on the Neva" recently appeared in "The New Yorker". Absurdistan, a novel set in a fictional Soviet republic awash in oil and ethnic rivalry, is forthcoming.
In more recent years he has written Little Failure in 2014, Speaking of Work: A Story of Love, Suspense and Paperclips in 2017, and Lake Success in 2018.
Gary Shteyngart currently divides his time between New York and Rome.
TLD Interview: Author Gary Shteyngart
22.06.2018 Interviews
Author Gary Shteyngart has just moved from the Lower East Side and already he is back at Brown Café on Hester Street, one of his favorite breakfast spots. “If I were a Russian spy,” he claims, “I’d work here.” He gestures to the wooden bar and adds, “As a barista.” I’ve ordered the bread basket for us, though it turns out, Shteyngart does not eat carbs. He admires its beauty, but won’t touch it. So very American of him and he is also wearing shorts. “Don’t get the shorts in the picture!” he shakes his head. “If that leaked to Europe, I wouldn’t get any sales there!”
Gary Shteyngart: The Russian Debutante's Handbook
14.02.2008 Readings
The story of Vladimir Girshkin - part P.T. Barnum, part V.I. Lenin, the man who would conquer half of Europe (albeit the wrong half) - begins the way so many other things in America begin. On a Monday morning. In an office. With the first cup of instant coffee gurgling to life in the common lounge.
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