Gary Shteyngart

2 months ago | graceatwood.substack.com | Gary Shteyngart |Grace Atwood

My coffee table is the centerpiece of my home. It’s where I keep the things I’m most excited about at any given time. Fresh flowers . . . the books and magazines I’m reading . . . a slab of malachite, a pretty mug . . . a cozy candle. I’m excited to unveil a new monthly series here on Scratch Pad, aptly named The Centerpiece. I have been toying with an interview series for a while now, and this one feels right. I couldn’t think of a better person to launch the series than , the founder of Loeffler Randall.

Apr 22, 2024 | newyorker.com | Adam Iscoe |Gary Shteyngart |Alexandra Schwartz

A. J. Liebling famously wrote that “the primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.” For this year’s Food Issue, we enlisted the appetites of chefs, novelists, New Yorker writers, and—as models for one very messy photo shoot—a crew of hungry babies. Like Liebling’s food writing, the resulting pieces offer pleasures both literary and epicurean, with generous sprinklings of humor and a few too many drinks.

Apr 6, 2024 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Gary Shteyngart |Matteo Wong |Amanda Mull

This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. Gary Shteyngart spent seven nights (or, as he calls them, seven “agonizing” nights) on the Icon of the Seas, the biggest cruise ship that’s ever sailed. In our May 2024 issue, he writes about what he found there.

Feb 29, 2024 | decine21.com | Will Tracy |Seth Reiss |Sarah DeLappe |Gary Shteyngart |Jen Spyra |Juli Weiner

Un innombrado país de Europa Central, gobernado por la autócrata canciller Elena Vernham. Encerrada en su palacio presidencial, donde tiene momificado el cadáver de su progenitor y anterior líder de la nación, tiene un comportamiento paranoico, viendo virus por todas partes, y comportándose erráticamente con los representantes de otros países.

Dec 17, 2023 | bloodandwhiskey.substack.com | Neal Thompson |Rebecca Makkai |Gary Shteyngart

Hello friends and readers,Before we get to the moll or the Korean novelist or the Irish unraveling or the Du Maurier homage or my favorite cocktail of the year, let’s start with the serial killer on death row. I’d missed it when it came out last year, but glad I finally found time for Danya Kukafka’s incredible Notes On An Execution. We meet Ansel Packer twelve hours before he’s scheduled to die.