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
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.
want-you-back want what-you-want
You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.
names lucky michigan
Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.
country dark russia
Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.
writing mean personality
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.
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.
book reading talking
Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.
distance america rooms
In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.
people knows
We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.
talking parent kind
My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me.
mother necks cranes
My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.