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Gary Shteyngart

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    December 5, 2010

    Chuck Klosterman Dissects Zombie Craze in New York Times, Big Ups n 1 Essay

    Not a zombie​Pop culture point man Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs) pens an essay on zombies for the front page of the Arts section in the New York Times today, leading with the scintillating idea that "there are at least 2.4 million cable-ready Americans who might prefer watching ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2010

    Cover Girl: Is Nicole Krauss Being Objectified on the Cover of the New York Times Book Review?

    ​The New York Times Book Review for October 17, 2010 features Great House author Nicole Krauss on its cover. The book, her highly anticipated third novel and the follow-up to The History of Love, is reviewed by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein in an article entitled "Hearts Full of Sorrow," teased ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Are Creative Writing MFAs a "Ponzi Scheme"?

    ​A Master of Fine Arts in creative writing in America is a curious piece of paper, one that says something about the person holding it -- mostly, that they survived an MFA program without killing themselves, which apparently isn't easy -- and also, in some circles, acts as a certification that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    What Does Hanson Read in Between All That MmmBopping?

    ​ Paper magazine reporters learned that precise factlet at the magazine's own "Sounds Like Paper" concert at Roseland, where the Hanson brothers proved they're still more musically proficient than anything Jonas. The Q&A went like so: Paper: So, Taylor, we noticed that you've been reading S ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 1, 2010

    WELCOME TO BOOK-LYN

    A star-studded celebration of literature

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    This Week in the Voice: A Cooper Union Student's Eye for an Education

    ​The typical college student's time abroad is used primarily for escaping into lands of legal-age drinking and assorted other debauchery. Cooper Union student Emily Henochowicz ended up doing something slightly different with her time: protesting in the West Bank this past May. That was when s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    This Week's Voice: Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, the Return of Sons of Bazerk, and More

    Spiritualized's Jason Pierce. Photo by Suki Dhanda.​In this week's Village Voice, Michael D. Ayers revisits the rock 'n' roll grandeur of Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space as the band prepares to perform the album at Radio City Music Hall, and Phillip Mlynar chronic ... More >>

  • Books

    July 27, 2010

    Gary Shteyngart Writes Another Smelly Book

    Super Sad True Love Story journeys to dystopia via handheld devices

  • Voice Choices

    July 20, 2010

    FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

    Gary Shteyngart reads at Bryant Park

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Week in Review: We Forgot "Rad Bromance"

    The highlight of our week, for good or ill.​ In case Lady Gaga's monstrous fame-monster antics weren't over-the-top enough, the bubble-dress-wearing, bloody-heart- ripping Gaga monster's out-of-this-planet-to-Jupiter-and-back diva status may have officially been cemented in stone this week. We ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    The Latest M.I.A. Mega-Profile Fixates On Ice Cube (?) Instead Of Truffle Fries

    ​One thing rings very true after reading Gary Shteyngart's GQ profile of M.I.A.: Neither the magazine nor the interviewer had any interest in giving her the Hirschberg, as it were. Gary Shteyngart--the much-lauded young writer releasing his third novel next month--brings up Maya's relationship ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 11, 2009

    A LITTLE BIT IN LOVE

    Broken hearts make for great stories

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2009

    Week in Review: "Some Magazine, I Don't Know Where It Was."

    Sahoko Yui In the week Rush Limbaugh called us "some magazine," we invited our friend Status Ain't Hood back for a day. Oh, and right: Congrats Tom! Interviews: Wavves' Nathan Williams on drugs and the beach, Albert Maysles on HBO's new Grey Gardens, Ian Svenonius on Kanye West and his new band, C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2009

    Starter Apartments of the Literary Rich and Famous

    Curbed posts photos from a one bedroom apartment, $450,000 for 800 square feet, belonging to one Gary Shteyngart, who wrote the somewhat hilarious The Russian Debutante's Handbook and, in the very confines described above, Absurdistan. Or so brags the realtor: "How quiet, serene, and wonderful is ... More >>

  • News

    January 21, 2009

    Class Action Listings

    Curbed posts photos from a one bedroom apartment, $450,000 for 800 square feet, belonging to one Gary Shteyngart, who wrote the somewhat hilarious The Russian Debutante's Handbook and, in the very confines described above, Absurdistan. Or so brags the realtor: "How quiet, serene, and wonderful is ... More >>

  • Books

    October 23, 2007

    Michael Chabon's Heavy-Handed Gentlemen of the Road

    They Semite Be Giants—next up from the Jewish New Wave Gentlemen of the Road

  • Art

    February 27, 2007

    America's Next Top Supernovel

    Granta once again takes bets on the nation's young literary talent

  • Books

    May 16, 2006

    VLS Bestsellers

    Granta once again takes bets on the nation's young literary talent

  • NYC Life

    May 2, 2006

    On Russia, With Love

    Gary Shteyngart sings the blues; Tribeca Film Fest goes Bang Bang

  • NYC Life

    September 9, 2003

    Fall Books

    Once Upon Another Time: Postmodern Takes on Kids' Stories

  • NYC Life

    August 19, 2003

    Listings

    Once Upon Another Time: Postmodern Takes on Kids' Stories

  • NYC Life

    March 4, 2003

    Listings

    Once Upon Another Time: Postmodern Takes on Kids' Stories

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