Sublime

Gary Shteyngart’s The Russian Debutante’s Handbook

He has a kind, round face and the relaxed, easygoing manner of someone who’s spent most of his life in California.

With each new adherent I am crossing the line from unclubbable fruitcake to tolerated eccentric.

he had offended the daily critics in the book by referring to the New York crowd as “angleworms in a bottle” and to critics as the lice that crawl on literature;