Two for Tuesday: Awesome Show, Great Job
Topics discussed: The 1990s Chicago Bulls, Nike Air Pippen IIs, NAFTA, Doc Martens, Michael Schaub, Jesse Montgomery, Ryan Holiday, Mein Kampf, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, The Daily Show, The Onion, blurbs,… Read more »
Gary Shteyngart blurbs the world’s worst books
Last month we reported the sad news that Gary Shteyngart, one of the best book blurbers around, was retiring from blurbing. “Literature can and will go on without my mass… Read more »
Gary Shteyngart retires from blurbing
Book jackets will be a little bare in coming months. A prolific blurber has stepped down. Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure and Super Sad True Love Story, has endorsed… Read more »
Gary Shteyngart is getting a new toy
Gary Shteyngart is being given a pair of Google Glass. It’s a fitting choice, as the characters in the author’s most recent novel, Super Sad True Love Story, stare at the… Read more »
SLIDESHOW: Are dachshunds the most artful of dogs?
Nabokov admired one. Chekhov cuddled with one. E.B. White wrote poetry to them. Gary Shteyngart tweets about one. (Also: Warhol had two. Picasso drew one.) At The New York Daily News’s Page Views… 7 / Read more »