The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.
Gary ShteyngartIf you're not fascinated by Korea yet, you damn well should be. The most innovative country on earth deserves a hilarious and poignant account on the order of Euny Hong's The Birth of Korean Cool. Her phat beats got Gangnam Style and then some.
Gary ShteyngartIf my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.
Gary ShteyngartAmerica should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!
Gary ShteyngartOn that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end all that was Misha Vainberg would evaporate along with the styles and delusions of his epoch, leaving behind not one flutter of his sad heavy brilliance, not one damp spot around which his successors could congregate to appreciate his life and times.
Gary Shteyngart