the book.

Last Sunday, I launched the Our Man in Beirut book. The launch party was a huge success thanks to all the amazing people who showed up, my publishers at Turning Point Books, the great setting at Secteur 75 and the vodka offered by Russian Standard Lebanon which kept everyone chatting and mingling. I’ll write a ...

bukowski.

taxis.

super sad true love story.

Slate’s review of the latest Shteyngart book. Looks fascinating. Gary Shteyngart might be too funny for his own good. His new novel, Super Sad True Love Story, is a spectacularly clever near-future dystopian satire, but it may actually disappoint admirers of his first two, more consistently hilarious, novels, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook and Absurdistan. At first, the book ...