Gary Shteyngart
Person on 4 sites
Gary Shteyngart is a Soviet-born American writer of mostly satirical fiction.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 5 July 1972, Leningrad, as Igor Semyonovich Shteyngart; emigrated to the United States in 1979 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: Stuyvesant High School; BA in politics, Oberlin College (1995); MFA, Hunter College (opens wiqqi.app)
- Novels: The Russian Debutante's Handbook (2002); Absurdistan (2006); Super Sad True Love Story (2010); Lake Success (2018); Our Country Friends (2021); Vera, or Faith (2025) (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Newsletter: Gary's Journey Through Hell (opens garyshteyngart.substack.com)
“The Calf is Pretty Golden at Le Veau d’Or”
- x.com: @Shteyngart (opens x.com)
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Newsletter: Gary's Journey Through Hell (opens garyshteyngart.substack.com)
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5 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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For a decade, pleasure has been missing from young writers' work, even work that renders misery beautifully. (opens korrents.com)
“For the past decade or so, I have noticed pleasure missing from my students’ work, even work that chronicles misery so beautifully.”
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The joy of the sensual life is there for anyone to take. (opens korrents.com)
“It is the joy of surviving, feeling, letting the senses take it all in. It is the joy of the sensual life, and it is there for the taking. So take it already!”
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Wearing beautiful clothes is a form of rebellion as well as pleasure. (opens korrents.com)
“Wearing beautiful clothes has always been not just a source of pleasure but also of rebellion for those who don’t want to dress like the aforementioned Zuckerberg, with his hoodies evoking as much personality as his…”
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For a decade, pleasure has been missing from young writers' work, even work that renders misery beautifully. (opens korrents.com)
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2 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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A Tender Age (opens rcmnd.app)
“Uh, A Tender Age I think is the name of the book. There was an excerpt in The New Yorker. This I think is his most, um, memoiristic novel. I think a lot of his own background goes into this. He meant so much to me both…”
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Motherland (opens rcmnd.app)
“Uh, and the third book is Julia Ioffe's, uh, Motherland, which was a National Book Award finalist, an old friend of mine, also Soviet-born, uh, Moscow to My Leningrad and it's a book about uh, what the Soviet, you…”
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A Tender Age (opens rcmnd.app)