The ambulance constantly came to our house. I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia.
"A good friend of mine turned 50 recently and he said 'Oh my God, Gary, I can see that life is not eternal.' And I thought 'You just figured this out now?' Because death has been on my mind since I was a little pup. When we go home, are we really going to open a thick text with 350 pages and try to waddle through it?" It's just shocking: how is literature supposed to survive when our brain has been pummeled with information all day long at work - if we're white collar workers. There's so many packets of information coming at me, especially in a city like New York, which is so dense with information no matter where you go. My mind has been sliced and diced in so many ways. "Sometimes technology outpaces humanity's ability to process it. But you don't have to worry about explaining the next killer app or the next Facebook. Obviously, there have been some technological advancements. If you write about 1812 in 1860, a horse is still a horse. "In the 1860s, wanted to write about the Napoleonic Campaign of 1812. It's a problem writers such as Leo Tolstoy may not have felt so acutely. because right now things are happening so quickly." he explains.
"We're all living in the future constantly. In an interview on Fresh Air, Shteyngart tells Terry Gross that he needed to set his novel in the future because the present is moving too fast for novelists to fully contemplate. Lenny spends his time convincing her to love him back - to create some form of stability in a world that is growing increasingly fickle and ephemeral. Amidst the chaotic visions of a dystopic future, a schlumpy salesman named Lenny Abramov falls in love with Eunice Park, the daughter of Korean immigrants and a newly minted college graduate. Gary Shteyngart's third novel, Super Sad True Love Story, is a black comedy set in America at some point in the near future: books no longer exist, Americans spend the majority of their time watching videos on their iPhone-like "apparats" and the country is on the brink of complete collapse. Super Sad True Love Story is now available in paperback. This interview was originally broadcast on Aug.
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