Super Sad True Love Story is a brilliant new satirical novel, set in the near future, built on what writer Gary Shteyngart realized was the crucial difference between the great futurist novels Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, and l984, by George Orwell (of course). As Shteyngart points out in this typically great interview withContinue reading “The truth about Super Sad True Love Story”
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Obvi: a new word for the 21st century
That's according to Gary Shteyngart, author of the brilliant/disturbing Super Sad True Love Story…and according, today, to Doonesbury, ever on the cutting edge of American culture: Obvi: a word whose form embodies its meaning. It's so obvious, you don't need the whole word.
Kit Stolz 