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World Hum (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
Here’s another compelling piece from the author of “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook” and “Absurdistan” in the latest issue of Travel + Leisure. He writes: “Korea is a country with one of the unhappier histories the world has known, a present that amounts to the frenzied tapping of the fast-forward button and a future that may already be here.” Related on World Hum: * Shteyngart on ‘New Berlin’: It’s...
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bookgeeks.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
The tattered remains of the former Soviet Union is the setting for this extravagant satire, which channels influences from Evelyn Waugh to John Kennedy O’Toole to paint an often amusing and sometimes uncomfortable picture of life in the new Russia. Misha Vanberg, aka Snack Daddy, is our hero and narrator. The corpulent Misha is a [...]
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Line Out (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Pardon, but have you noticed who's in the music section this week? It's kind of ridiculous: Charles Mudede, Laura Albert/JT Leroy, Miranda July, Chris Weeg, Paul Constant, Marya Sea Kaminski, Grant Cogswell, Gary Shteyngart, Donte Parks, Stephen Elliot, Brangien Davis, Brendan Kiley, and Sherman Alexie Damn! And what the hell are they all doing here? Making out to Portishead . From Mudede's introduction:...
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A Different Stripe (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
New York City Friday, January 18th at 7 pm McNally Robinson 52 Prince Street New York, NY 10012 212.274.1160 Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories by Gregor von Rezzori Zadie Smith and Gary Shteyngart will take part...
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 06/04/2007
The New York Times asked several writers, Nora Ephron, Dave Eggers, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jonathan Safran Foer, Edwidge Danticat, Gary Shteyngart, Kathryn Harrison and Jeffrey Eugenides among them, if they've read any good books lately...here are their responses. Read more of this story at LISNews.org.
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