Gary Shteyngart

We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies by @tseringylama joins amazing books by @diksha_basu, @jessamine.chan, @crystalhanak and so many other contemporary greats I’ve had the honor of teaching at the Columbia MFA writing program.

Gary Shteyngart

My first novel, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, was published exactly twenty years ago! The lurid original cover was reportedly stolen from a Bolivian narco thriller and every moment of my life since its publication has been equally insane.

Gary Shteyngart

A perfect evening with a perfect book. Brava, @rebecca_struthers for your excellent words and watches. I am savoring this book, engine turning it in my mind sentence by sentence.

Gary Shteyngart

I’m not a big reader, but I read Happiness Falls by @angiekimask twice and I wish I could blurb it a second time, too (which I guess I’m doing now).

Gary Shteyngart

Knife by Salman Rushdie is a true miracle. Yes, it describes in painful detail the horror of what happened, but it’s also a mediation on happiness and love. Surviving the attack took strength, but this kind of writing takes wisdom.

Gary Shteyngart

Science now says having 6 close friends is optimal for health. That's exactly how many friends I have in my novel Our Country Friends. So read my book and live longer! Or whatever... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/well/live/adult-friendships-number.html

Gary Shteyngart

I like how it has more plot than many other… novels out there, but it’s still mainly about a young woman stumbling from place to place without doing much, which is my favorite kind of novel. Also, it’s set in the Hamptons which proves conclusively that living Upstate is better.

Gary Shteyngart

Congrats to @charles_yu for his much-deserved National Book Award win for Interior Chinatown. Get yer copy today!

Gary Shteyngart

[Chung is] a great prose stylist and brings immense insight to her own life as a Korean adoptee growing up in whitest Oregon. This is also a really good take on illness in general and COVID in particular. Touching but never gloomy or too self-centered.

Gary Shteyngart

Rebecca Godfrey was an incredible friend and neighbor throughout the years. Her passing hurts deeply. Please read Under the Bridge (soon to be a Hulu series) and The Torn Skirt. She was every bit as good a writer as a she was a friend. https://t.co/P5oEGIGQtj