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
waiting-rooms bags looks
In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.
safe feels i-can
I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.
falling-in-love men people
I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?
hands brain fiction
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
summer running home
Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think we’re young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and it pecks us and pecks us until we’re standing there snot-nosed and teary in the middle of Astor Place and the sun sets fire to our Penguin shirts and all that is left to do is go to our air-conditioned homes and ponder the cruelty of our finest season.
cities despair answers
Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if it's not, I will love it all the more. I will love it to the point where it becomes mine again.
party gay kissing
Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck.
machines giants opinion
We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
drinking smoking students
I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.
tyrants attention mercy
That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.
want world hungry
I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.
growing-up america russia
I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.
want entertainment fiction
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
iphone needs lost
The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. Theres never a need to feel lost anymore.