Gary Shteyngart appears in the following:
Get Lit: Novelist Gary Shteyngart's 'Our Country Friends'
Friday, February 04, 2022
'Our Country Friends' by Novelist Gary Shteyngart
Friday, November 12, 2021
Gary Shteyngart's Latest Novel
Tuesday, September 04, 2018
The Modern Workplace Portrayed Through Art
Friday, October 27, 2017
Gary Shteyngart’s Super Funny Scary Future
Thursday, September 22, 2016
2016 Election Revives Russian Paranoia
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Learning to Be Bored With Gary Shteyngart
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Pick Three: Gary Shteyngart
Tuesday, February 04, 2014
Author Gary Shteyngart shares a playlist inspired by his comic memoir, Little Failure.
Gary Shteyngart Picks Three; Real Estate Unveils New Songs, Live In The Studio
Tuesday, February 04, 2014
In this episode: From Russia With Soundcheck continues with Gary Shteyngart who shares a Pick Three playlist of songs with connections to Leningrad, Queens and, of all things, ABBA. Real Estate. He also discusses his comic memoir, Little Failure, which recounts his family’s life in the Soviet Union – and their eventual move to New York in 1979.
Then, a couple more modern day Russian pop music picks from Sasha Kondukov, editor in chief of Rolling Stone's Russia edition.
And, Real Estate returns to the Soundcheck studio with an exclusive debut of new songs from Atlas, the band's forthcoming third album.
A Literary Walkabout in Gary Shteyngart's Queens
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
It was at the Solomon Schechter School of Queens that he first made his public debut as a writer. We do a walk and talk through some of his favorite neighborhood haunts.
Guest Picks: Gary Shteyngart
Tuesday, January 07, 2014
Gary Shteyngart was on the Leonard Lopate Show recently to talk about his memoir, Little Failure. He told us about his love of the Capybara, which we had never heard of, and his favorite, very Russian-sounding comfort food.
Gary Shteyngart Tells a Brezhnev Joke
Tuesday, January 07, 2014
Novelist Gary Shteyngart shares his American immigrant experience and family history in Little Failure: A Memoir. Born Igor Shteyngart in Leningrad during the waning days of the Soviet Union, he immigrated with his parents in the late 1970s after President Carter made a deal to trade grain for Soviet Jews. Small and asthmatic, he became the second most hated boy in his Queens Hebrew school. He talks about his earliest stories, which his grandmother rewarded for with cheese, makes Leonard laugh with an old joke about Brezhnev, and admits that writing a memoir was a challenge because all writers are liars.
Video: Questions for Gary Shteyngart
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Novelist Gary Shteyngart admits he has no hope for the future and has an unfortunate sense of humor (but he's still very funny).
January's Book: Absurdistan, by Gary Shteyngart
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Our first book club pick of 2012 is Gary Shteyngart’s novel, Absurdistan. It tells the story of Misha Vainberg, a young Russian immigrant whose hopes of a U.S. visa are dashed by his father. Forced to leave New York, Misha moves to Absurdistan, a tiny, oil-rich nation where he finds, among other things, civil war, corruption, and love. Get your copy today and start reading this slapstick satire, which the New York Times named one of the 10 best books of 2006!
Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Financial Story
Friday, August 12, 2011
The sickening ups and downs of the debt ceiling crisis are feeding worries that American politics and the economy are unraveling. For the novelist Gary Shteyngart, it all sounds very familiar: “I’ll turn on the news, I’ll vomit from nervousness and then I’ll wipe my chin and say ‘Oh, you know ...
Super Sad True Love Story
Friday, July 30, 2010
Gary Shteyngart set his new novel, Super Sad True Love Story, in a dystopian, not-too-distant future where books are passé and social media reigns supreme — just like the present, only worse. Shteyngart tells Kurt how the reality of America's decline ended up outpacing his fiction ...
Gary Shteyngart on His 'Super Sad True Love Story'
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Gary Shteyngart has been at the top of the New York Times bestseller list, is one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists, and was just recently selected for the New Yorker’s “20 under 40” list. We talk with him about his new book, “Super Sad True Love Story.”
Guest Picks: Gary Shteyngart
Monday, July 26, 2010
Find out about some of Gary Shteyngart's favorite picks after appearing on The Leonard Lopate Show.
Gary Shteyngart and his Super Sad True Love Story
Monday, July 26, 2010
Gary Shteyngart talks about his new novel, Super Sad True Love Story. Set in New York in the near future, when a functionally illiterate America is on the verge of collapse, it tells the story of Lenny Abramov. Lenny loves books, despite the fact that nobody reads anymore, and printed books are viewed as artifacts of a lost world.
Absurdistan
Friday, January 19, 2007
Novels about "the immigrant experience" are usually sentimental tales of pluck and dignity. Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan is not one of those novels. The hero of the book is a 300 pound Russian named Misha Vainberg who boasts that he has a huge fancy loft ...