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
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?
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.
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.
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.
nice fiction would-be
American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
teenage love-you squares
I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.
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.
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.