Gary Shteyngart
Russian-born American novelist; author of Super Sad True Love Story (2010), Lake Success (2018) and Vera, or Faith (2025), and of the memoir Little Failure (2014).
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Their wordsFor the past decade or so, I have noticed pleasure missing from my students’ work, even work that chronicles misery so beautifully.
↗Last part of the introduction to The Sensualistgaryshteyngart.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIt is the joy of surviving, feeling, letting the senses take it all in. It is the joy of the sensual life, and it is there for the taking. So take it already!
↗Last part of the introduction to The Sensualistgaryshteyngart.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsWearing beautiful clothes has always been not just a source of pleasure but also of rebellion for those who don’t want to dress like the aforementioned Zuckerberg, with his hoodies evoking as much personality as his actual personality.
↗Part 3 of the introduction to The Sensualistgaryshteyngart.substack.com
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Their wordsThe rich are every bit as boring as the means by which they earned their money.
↗Part 2 of the introduction to The Sensualistgaryshteyngart.substack.com
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Their wordsThey are as curious and innocent as ever, though cornered by algorithms and tortured by the need to succeed exponentially in a hotter, crueler world.