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Backscratching in Our Time – Aleksandar Hemon and Gary Shteyngart

1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 1 month ago: The latest in a series of occasional posts on authors who praise each other’s books Aleksandar Hemon … more →

Tags: Backscratching in Our Time, News, Books, Publishing, ethics, Conflicts of Interest, Marketing, aleksandar hemon, Nicolai Gógol

The Blurb Slut

fictionadvocate wrote 1 month ago: Emily Pullen at Skylight Books in LA has done a good job of exposing one of the dirty little secrets … more →

Tags: Hooray Fiction!

Gigantic gets a pretty new website

Jason Diamond wrote 2 months ago: They hipped us on Gary Shteyngart’s love of smoked meats, featured an in-depth conversation be … more →

Tags: tao lin, Malcolm Gladwell, Gigantic magazine, Thomas Doyle, J. A. Tyler

Weekend Bites: Dave Eggers is like John Wayne but with a pen, Raymond Carver, Jon Ronson, Bjork and Barney kaput?, Hornby hearts LHB, and more.

Jason Diamond wrote 3 months ago: Three Guys One Book: “Where have all the cowboys gone? Has literature isolated itself from a b … more →

Tags: bITes, Bjork, Dave Eggers, Jacket Copy, Jon Ronson, largehearted boy, Leonard Cohen, Matthew Barney, nick hornby

Gary Shteyngart, I love you. (Totally straight)

Jason Diamond wrote 3 months ago: … more →

Tags: bITes, Gogol

Once Upon A Book

Mother Goosed wrote 3 months ago: Once upon a time if you wanted to view a book with pictures you needed to time travel to the 19th ce … more →

Tags: brian selznick, Children's Books, Chris Raschka, Comics, David Macaulay, elisa kleven, hugo cabret, Illustration, kenosha

Michael Taeckens Talks About His New Anthology, "Love Is A Four-Letter Word"3 comments

artandliterature wrote 4 months ago: Michael Taeckens received his MFA in poetry from the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop and no … more →

Tags: interviews, N.C. Events, Junot Diaz, Wendy Brenner, george singleton, Michael Taeckens, Lynda Berry, Kate Christensen, Brock Clarke

The meat of Gary Shteyngart1 comment

Jason Diamond wrote 4 months ago: The foodie interview in Gigantic Magazine with Gary Shteyngart is pretty priceless, and if the entir … more →

Tags: Lit., Meat

I Am the World; I'll Eat the World: A Conversation with Gary Shteyngart

molossus wrote 4 months ago: Sara Brown & Armando Celayo first published in World Literature Today 83:2, March – April 2009 G … more →

Tags: Interview, Fiction, Russia, Armando Celayo, Conversation, Russian American, Absurdistan

New story: An interview with Gary Shteyngart: "On Travel Writing"

Rob Verger wrote 6 months ago: Photo by Marion Ettlinger It was my pleasure to recently interview Gary Shteyngart, a contributing e … more →

Tags: interviews, New York City, publications, Travel, World hum, writing, Absurdistan, Best American Travel Writing, the russian debutante's handbook

Sorry2 comments

oneyearbook wrote 7 months ago: Sorry I haven’t been blogging too much lately. First we went away for the weekend – a go … more →

Tags: Worries, the novel, Authors, Links, Writer's Block, Absurdistan, writer's crap, Travel

Absurdistan, by Gary Shteyngart

London wrote 8 months ago: Absurdistan, April 2009, 8/10 Written by Gary Shteyngart, published by Random House. This novel is h … more →

Tags: Fiction, American, 8/10

More Than What Meets the Ear

erinstraza wrote 8 months ago: Language provides a peek into the person who is communicating. The language they speak, the accent t … more →

Tags: Culture, Books, language, Vocabulary, Pronunication, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wendy Lesser

Gigantic #1 Interview Preview1 comment

giganticmag wrote 9 months ago: GIGANTIC #1 interview preview post (3/3) Welcome to the third installment of our debut issue teaser. … more →

Tags: Issue 1, gigantic, debut issue, tao lin, Gigantic magazine, Deb Olin Unferth, Joe Wenderoth, Malcolm Gladwell

Advice for novelists3 comments

stevenhartwriter wrote 10 months ago: I haven’t read Absurdistan, but author Gary Shteyngart’s advice for novelists has me thi … more →

Tags: the writing life, advice for novelists, literary life, Absurdistan

Absurdistan

Riot wrote 11 months ago: Review Ladies and gentlemen and those who are both or neither…today I am going to attempt some … more →

Tags: Reviews, Fiction Reviews, Contemporary Fiction, Judaism, Satire, ficticious nations, Russian Jews, Russia, Civil War

The Repatriate

Abby wrote 11 months ago: The Russian Debutante's Handbook The Russian Debutante’s Handbook By Gary Shteyngart Conti … more →

Tags: Shteyngart, the russian debutante's handbook

Gary Shteyngart--Absurdistan (2006)

Paul wrote 1 year ago: SOUNDTRACK: KING’S X: Out of the Silent Planet (1988). I just got the newest King’s X CD … more →

Tags: Funny ha ha, Dystopia, Meta, Corporate skewering, consumerism, Religion, the beatles, War, Black Sabbath

Fiction Library (30)

stephshimkooo wrote 1 year ago: Classics Emma – Jane Austen Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll Great Expectations – Charles Dickens … more →

Tags: Fiction, Steph's Library, Albert Camus, Aldous Huxley, Amin Maalouf, Amy Tan, Anne Tyler, bernard shaw, chad kultgen


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