In an interview with Inverse, Shteyngart shares what it was like to predict the future 10 years ago when he released his semi-dystopian novel, 'Super Sad True Love Story'. But not before recommending ...

In his first two novels, “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook” and “Absurdistan,” Gary Shteyngart sent his gentle, nebbishy heroes (Americanized Russian Jews) on a rough ride through post-Soviet Eastern ...

“There has to be a compelling reason these days for someone to decide to pick up a smelly book,” says satirist Gary Shteyngart, the 38-year-old author whose novel “Super Sad True Love Story,” a ...

This interview was originally broadcast on Aug. 2, 2010. Super Sad True Love Story is now available in paperback. Gary Shteyngart's third novel, Super Sad True Love Story, is a black comedy set in ...

"Looking good is the new smart," says a character in Super Sad True Love Story. Welcome to Gary Shteyngart's vision of America in the near future, where intelligence does indeed take a backseat to ...

Among the many artists featured on Metallica's upcoming Blacklist album are St. Vincent, Sam Fender and Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, who've all just released covers of Metallica's "Sad But True." ...

Note: this review originally ran in August of 2010. We are posting it today, May 3, to coincide with the paperback release. Regarded among our country’s greatest satirists, Shteyngart is capable of ...

Kelly Clarkson is a heavy-metal goddess. Clarkson, whose ability to sing a wide range of genres (classics, rock anthems and even theme songs, among them) dates all the way back to her "American Idol" ...

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit have recorded a country version of Metallica's "Sad But True" for Metallica's upcoming Blacklist album, which celebrates 30 years of the Black Album. Isbell and the 400 ...

Times like these demand great comic novels and thank God we have Gary Shteyngart to provide. His shortest, sweetest and most perfectly constructed novel ever, “Vera, or Faith” is here to save the day.

There's an inherent problem in satirizing how vapid American culture has become. If we are indeed as oversexed, consumer-obsessed, gadget-distracted and dangerously superficial as Gary Shteyngart ...

Pity Lenny Abramov, the sad and hilarious human being at the center of “Super Sad True Love Story,” Gary Shteyngart’s hilarious and sad new novel. A balding, depressed, socially frustrated 39-year-old ...