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X-WR-CALNAME:A Conversation with Gary Shteyngart
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DESCRIPTION:Please join us in conversation with New York Times best-selling
  author Gary Shteyngart\, a Soviet-born satirical writer\, on the topic of
  absurdities and realities of Soviet and post-Soviet life. This discussion
  will be moderated by Molly Antopol\, Asisstant Professor\, Stanford Engli
 sh Department\, and followed by a signing of his recent books\, including:
  Super Sad True Love Story\, Lake Success\, and Vera\, or Faith. \n\nPleas
 e RSVP here. \n\nAbout Gary Shteyngart: The author of Super Sad True Love 
 Story and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist\, Gary Shteyngart wi
 ns over readers and audiences with his blistering humor\, his satirical ta
 kedowns of contemporary society\, and his compassionate examination of mod
 ern love and loss. His newest book\, Vera\, or Faith\, is a poignant\, sha
 rp-eyed\, and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together 
 in a country rapidly coming apart\, told through the eyes of their wondrou
 s ten-year-old daughter. It demonstrates why Shteyngart is\, in the words 
 of The New York Times\, "one of his generation's most exhilarating writers
 .  For more information on the speaker\, please visit www.prhspeakers.com.
 \n\nAbout Molly Antopol: Professor Antopol's first book\, The UnAmericans\
 , won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award\, a Nation
 al Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award and France’s French-American Prize. 
 The book was a longlisted for the National Book Award and was a finalist f
 or the National Jewish Book Award\, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award\, th
 e California Book Award and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize\, among others
 . Her debut novel\, Saturn\, is forthcoming next year from Norton.
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LOCATION:Humanities Center\, Levinthal Hall
SUMMARY:A Conversation with Gary Shteyngart
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