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FILTER RESULTS ►Gary Shteyngart is publishing an actual true story this time — his memoir
The rumor mill’s been buzzing for a while, but now it’s official: Gary Shteyngart — “Super Sad True Love Story” author, professional blurb writer, dachshund owner and reader of "Middlemarch" — will follow up his three best-selling novels with a memoir, according to his publisher, Random...
Based on a True Story
Jon Methven (of This Is Your Captain Speaking) has a problem: one of his characters trashed his novel on Amazon. Related posts: Äppärät-chic: Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story Make no mistake. Super Sad True Love Story boasts...Show More Summary
Adele Wasn’t Cussing Out Chris Brown….Too Bad
I was so loving the story of this picture of Adele supposedly cussing out Chris Brown for not giving Frank Ocean a standing ovation at the Grammy’s Sunday night. Sadly..it turns out that story wasn’t true and they were just being nice to each other. I liked Adele better when I thought she was being a ball-busting, British bad ass.
Ending aging in the Shteyngart of Eden: Biogerontological discourse in a Super Sad True Love Story
From the annals of people who truly have either too much time on their hands or the golden touch when it comes to writing grant applications, I give you this gem. Interestingly, the ScienceDirect system where the paper is hosted seems...Show More Summary
Finding True Love, Finding a Literary Agent
Your agent relationship is akin to a marriage.
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Äppärät-chic: Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story Make no mistake. Super Sad True Love Story boasts two...
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Super Sad True Love Story: A Review
The post Super Sad True Love Story: A Review appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. In my continuing quest to reflect on books which I have found important to my own work, I give you a work of fiction, first published in mid-2011:...Show More Summary
The Future Is Cloudy
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about data recently. It’s not just reading books like The Information or Mirror Worlds (or Super Sad True Love Story, a science fiction novel that is both compelling and scary), it’s my day to day work, both at FM (where we deal with literally 25 billion ad calls [...]
A Perfume That Smells Of An Obscure Pleasure: The Printed Word
In his book A Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart imagines a future in which the very smell of books is disgusting to hyper-digital New Yorkers. That day is still far off, but it’s true that many of us have eschewed printed books for digital readers. Show More Summary
Gary Shteyngart’s super, sad, true comedy
You can’t believe everything Gary Shteyngart says. Friday night at the Folger Library, the Russian immigrant held up a copy of his celebrated novel “Super Sad True Love Story” and told us, “The best thing about this book is its cover.” Read full article >>
Naked Jeans Are Here
Remember the dystopian novel Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart? It was a thing. One aspect of the dystopia was that women were always running around in "Onionskin jeans" which were transparent. Shteyngart wrote:
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The Sad Story Of The Sorority Girl, The Scrappy Guard, And The Law That Came Between Them [DHF]
Welcome to Great Moments in Drunken Hookup Failure, where we showcase three heartwarming true stories of drunken love gone horribly awry. Off we go. More »
Sinead O’Connor’s Husband Couldn’t Bear Another Moment With Her Brown Undifficulted: A Love Story
When Sinead O’Connor‘s marriage to Barry Herridge come to a sudden end just before Christmas, my world became a dark, empty cage of sadness and depression. Was there nothing true in this world? Was anal not the key to the soul? But, alas, a beacon of light has come shining through, proving that love conquers Read More...
One on One: Gary Shteyngart, Author of 'Super Sad True Love Story'
In a One on One interview, Gary Shteyngart, author of the novel "Super Sad True Love Story," talks about his predictions of the future of privacy, ratings for everything, onions skin jeans, inequality and the Occupy movement and of course, the äppärät. All that and bad coffee.
Photo of the Day: Super Sad True Love Story
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Rewiring the Real
Tonight at Columbia: A conversation with Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, and most recently Super Sad True Love Story. Moderated by McKenzie Wark, professor of media and cultural studies at The New School and author of Gamer Theory. “Rewiring the Real” at 6:30 P.M.
Will Social Media Make Us Anti-Social? A Talk With Gary Shteyngart
The author of the international best-seller Super Sad True Love Story explains his dystopian take on a future with smart advertising and dumb people
Soothsayers
The Times ran a gee-whiz article over the weekend about recent science fiction novels that predicted America's economic decline with "eerie accuracy." The article focuses in particular on Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story, a dystopian novel that provoked some strong reactions among my book club members. Show More Summary
Keen On… A Super Sad True Love Story (TCTV)
America's most talented writers are discovering the electronic network. In "Super Sad True Love Story," Gary Shteyngart's best selling trip into the digital future, Shteyngart invents a darkly disturbing world in which we all wear electronic pendants around our necks called "apparats" which reveal everything about us to everybody. Show More Summary
Friday Links
Gary Schteyngart is the first American to win the Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction. For his efforts, a pig will be named Super Sad True Love Story. He will also “be presented with a jeroboam of Bollinger Special Cuvee, a case of Bollinger La Grand Annee and a set of the Everyman Wodehouse collection.” You [...]
Gary Shteyngart Wins Wodehouse Prize
The Wodehouse Prize, which goes to humorous books of literary fiction, has been awarded to Gary Shteyngart for his novel Super Sad True Love Story. He is the first American ever to win the prize. U!S!A! U!S!A! Shteyngart, of course, was the headliner for Verse Chapter Verse, The Stranger's books-and-music series, last year. Show More Summary
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