Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngartis an American writer born in Leningrad, USSR. Much of his work is satirical...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 July 1972
CountryUnited States of America
distance america rooms
In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.
drinking whiskey wonderful
Vodka is a wonderful drink. You can drink so much of it without being as hung over as you would if you were drinking one of the brown liquors - the whiskeys and such. It's a great drink to go with appetizers.
want-you-back want what-you-want
You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.
voice america treasure
America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!
tchaikovsky lakes swans
The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.
night appreciate personality
On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end all that was Misha Vainberg would evaporate along with the styles and delusions of his epoch, leaving behind not one flutter of his sad heavy brilliance, not one damp spot around which his successors could congregate to appreciate his life and times.
pals mediocrity matter
Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.
talking parent kind
My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me.
feature tells travel
I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
bottom civilization nose pool takes taking
When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
cannot doubt humor readers work
Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.
james performing sending writes
In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
couple decline feisty love natural
I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
people poetry
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.