The Collected Blurbs of Gary Shteyngart

The Nostalgist by Griffin Hansbury

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:34:33 -0400

“[The] Nostalgist is the most important book to come out of the Isle of Man last year! It kept me up all night.”
–Gary Shteyngart

The City of Devi by Manil Suri

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:39:00 -0500

“The City of Devi is so exuberant and sexy, one may wish to purchase a prophylactic alongside it. When the world comes to an end, I will spend my last days in Mumbai clutching a copy of Manil Suri’s dazzling epic.”
—Gary Shteyngart

You Were Never Really Here by Jonathan Ames

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 02:47:19 -0500

Broken Piano for President by Patrick Wensink

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 14:44:38 -0500

“I like Patrick Wensink’s work so much my heart had to issue its own cease-and-desist order.”
—Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story

Equilateral by Ken Kalfus

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:02:36 -0500

“When a new Ken Kalfus novel appears I stop eating, drinking, shaving, and breathing until I finish it. Equilateral is one of his smartest and most ambitious books yet. It left me thinking and wondering well past my bedtime.”
—Gary Shteyngart

Shteyngart Blurbs: The Documentary by Ed Champion

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:58:20 -0500

Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia by José Manuel Prieto

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 02:04:52 -0500

“A terrifyingly original writer, José Manuel Prieto’s prose shakes the walls of the literary kingdom.”
—Gary Shteyngart

El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel by Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:18:32 -0500

“Crypto-Jews of the Southwest, your voices are about to be heard! Sheinkin and Stavans do justice to both academic scholarship and the graphic novel in this amazing new work.”
—Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story

How to Be a Person: The Stranger's Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos, and Life Itself by Lindy West, Dan Savage, et al

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:46:15 -0500

“Suck it, Proust. This book about stuff is much better than those things you wrote.”
—Gary Shteyngart

Too Good to Be True by Benjamin Anastas

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:39:37 -0500

“A spectacular account of mind-blowing failure. It is short and it is beautiful and you must buy it.”
—Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story

A Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:38:46 -0500

“A brainy, bright, laughter-through-tears, can’t-stop-reading-until-it’s-over kind of novel. Fatherless daughters, mother-smothered sons, appealing ex-wives, mouthy high school drop-outs—damn, this book’s got something for everyone!”
—Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story and Absurdistan

The Story of My Purity by Francesco Pacifico

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:27:58 -0500

“Ho, ho and ho! Insanely funny and terrifically offensive, Francesco Pacifico’s novel fell on my head like a bowling ball and knocked me the hell out. Among many other things, it’s also a great updating of Roman life. American publishers don’t really translate from the Italiano anymore, so it’s great to see a worthy translation of what is sure to be a modern Italian classic.”
—Gary Shteyngart, author ofSuper Sad True Love Story

This Must Be the Place by Anna Winger

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:41:26 -0500

“As smart and cosmopolitan as the twenty-first century city she chronicles so well, Anna Winger’s This Must Be the Place is an essential love story for our confused and difficult times. Funny, touching, and unforgettable.”
—Gary Shteyngart

The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:23:00 -0400

“Arresting, ground-shifting, beautiful and tragic. This is the book a new generation of writers will answer to. No one in America writes like this.”
—Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan and The Russian Debutante’s Handbook

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:20:27 -0400

“If God is in the details, Ms. Desai has written a holy book. Page after page, from Harlem to the Himalayas, she captures the terror and exhilaration of being alive in the world.”
—Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan

The Longest Way Home by Andrew McCarthy

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:36:35 -0400

“It’s hard to write books that are both adventurous and touching, but Andrew McCarthy manages to pull it off and more! A smart, valuable book.”
—Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story and Absurdistan

May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 08:42:50 -0400

“I started this book in the A.M., finished in the P.M., and couldn’t sleep all night. Ms. Homes just gets better and better.”
—Gary Shteyngart

Everything Is Going To Be Great by Rachel Shukert

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:50:05 -0400

“If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav.”
—Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan

True Believers by Kurt Andersen

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:55:40 -0400

“Kurt Andersen’s best yet. The man is operating on some far-out level that bends time and space to his will. True Believers hits all the right notes and reads like a goddamn dream.”
—Gary Shteyngart

Jack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund White

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:29:21 -0400

“I can’t remember the last time I had this much fun with a novel. Jack Holmes and His Friend is a brilliant, moving and hilarious book from America’s wittiest and most urbane writer. It’s the story of two men and their unlikely friendship told without sentimentality, but containing within itself the history of a time and a place, New York in the second half of the 20th Century, that is entirely unforgettable and true. A top-shelf addition to the Edmund White canon.”
—Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story