At Boston Globe: Talking about a new a new Syd Barrett biography. At The New York Times: Nora Ephron is the 69-year-old that I’d most like to hang out with. At The Guardian: Christopher Hitchens may have cancer, but he can still kick Tony Blair’s ass at a debate. At Mediate: Fox News is finally using The Onion as a source. At Beatrice: Shteyngart and Moody to do some sci-fi.
Behind Front Lines: Gary Shteyngart at The Tenement Museum
Posted by Nick Curley From the cattle call line outside we watch Gary Shteyngart queueing up his press release video. Either he or the Tenement Museum is still using Windows XP. At the moment of truth they decide it’s easier to play the thing off Youtube and abandon the rewinding of the hard copy.
Weekend Bites: Sex and the City/Emily Gould, Les Mis, Julie Klausner on HBO, Gary Shteyngart Continues Talking and More
Julie Klausner’s memoir, I Don’t Care About Your Band, is going to HBO. Eh? “without Sex and the City, there would arguably have been no Emily Gould“ Making Les Mis into the next Twilight. Books to the Ceiling give us their midyear roundup. Gary Shteyngart on the Yidlit podcast. College kids being investigated in Wikileaks leak.
Shukert and Shteyngart Take to the Airwaves
Is there even such thing as air waves anymore (aside from the band)? If there are, Rachel Shukert and Gary Shteyngart are all over them, giving you more incentive to buy their great books. Rachel Shukert on East Village Radio Gary Shteyngart on the Tablet podcast (with Joshua Cohen)
Google Image Results for Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story
Page 1. Several covers of Shteyngart’s newest accompanied by Lincoln Michel (The Faster Times/Gigantic) and Kelis. This seems natural to me for some reason. Page 2. Page 3. Shoen Knife. Page 4. There is nothing sad about this. It’s simply a super true love story.
How Much Gary Shteyngart can You Take?
I like Gary Shteyngart and all, but he got the questions from Deborah Solomon AND the essay in the Book Review? At least he’s hilarious: The death of reading is a longstanding fear of futurists. Maybe we’re all wrong and there’s going to be a huge comeback in 10 years where all the kids are going to drop their iKindles and start reading like crazy. “Dude, did you read the latest Turgenev? It’s so sick. This dude is like all […]
Gary Shteyngart and James Franco in the Greatest Book Trailer EVER
Still not sure what I thought about Super Sad True Love Story, but this promo at NY Mag is the funniest thing I’ve seen all week.
Gary Shteyngart Writes Novella About Hanging Out With M.I.A.
It’s in the latest issue of GQ. Breakdown: Gary Shteyngart tells us about why M.I.A. is cool, then mentions his “own immigrant past” four paragraphs in. Gary Shteyngart tells us he’s assigned to write 7,000 words on M.I.A., so he talks about going to Oberlin College, listening to 90’s gangsta rap, and eating fast food. The word “hipster” is mentioned several times, including a quote from Histerrunoff.com. Writes the whole thing from the point of view of a dorky Russian […]