Shukert and Shteyngart Take to the Airwaves

Is there even such thing as air waves anymore (aside from the band)?  If there are, Rachel Shukert and Gary Shteyngart are all over them, giving you more incentive to buy their great books. Rachel Shukert on East Village Radio Gary Shteyngart on the Tablet podcast (with Joshua Cohen)

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Bites: New American Stories, New Nabokov is “Not a Novel”, Literary Journals as News Sources, Air Waves at Daytrotter, and More

Maud Newton talked about it in early November, but this recently posted review on Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigration (Library of America), had a quote I liked. Gary Shteyngart falls in love with cereal for the “unprecedented miracle” of toy prizes: “It tastes the way America feels. . . . . Something for nothing.” Lit. “The first thing you need to know about this new Nabokov thing is that it is not a novel.” — Ward Six. “In an ongoing effort to […]

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