Three Guys One Book: “Where have all the cowboys gone? Has literature isolated itself from a bigger cultural context?” Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith, Dennis Johnson, Gary Shteyngart, and the New York Times bestsellers of 1943 all make cameos. Jacket Copy asks: “How much of (Raymond) Carver’s “minimalist” style was a byproduct of (Gordon) Lish’s editing?” This 1997 New Yorker article provided as reference, and this review of the Library of America release of “Raymond Carter: Collected Stories” might shed sufficient […]
Gary Shteyngart, I love you. (Totally straight)
The meat of Gary Shteyngart
The foodie interview in Gigantic Magazine with Gary Shteyngart is pretty priceless, and if the entire issue weren’t as good as it is, this interview alone would be worth the small sum of three bucks. The first question mentions a Youtube video of the Russian-American writer mentioning that “smoked meats are a very sexy thing”, and while I am not that big a fan of eating dead animal, I do love Mr. Shteyngart, and decided to dig the video up. […]