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
jobs ideas parent
My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me.
new-york nice coffee
I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when Im looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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.
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.
book people needs
You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
growing-up thinking mortality
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
country order korea
If you're not fascinated by Korea yet, you damn well should be. The most innovative country on earth deserves a hilarious and poignant account on the order of Euny Hong's The Birth of Korean Cool. Her phat beats got Gangnam Style and then some.
writing way right-now
The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.
book men needs
All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just for procreation but for being able to fully unbosom himself. He only feels comfortable discussing things with women. Which is funny, because 80 percent of readers are women!
moving book way
A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
russia stills ifs
If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
communication enhancement telephones
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.
writing people subway
People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.