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
writing heart ifs
Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.
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?
country mean russia
Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.
girl rocks years
If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav.
evil stupidity benefits
Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.
book kids people
I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.
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.
self years two
She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely correct for 1993, the first year when mocking the mainstream had become the mainstream.
love lying reading
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot, to introduce actual "living" characters - I recalled this was a love story - and to leave the world of ideas behind. Here we were, two people lying in bed, Eunice's worried head propped on my collarbone, and I wanted us to feel something in common. I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn't that how they used to do it a century ago, people reading poetry to one another?
artist suffering instruments
A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]
mother college kiev
If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.
book possession
I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
self-esteem men feelings
I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
country making-love naked
It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.