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\"\"<\/a>Gary Shteyngart\u2019s latest novel, <\/em>Super Sad True Love Story<\/a>, signals his move out of Soviet territory and into a near-future New York City, where books have no place in a hyper-technological society. Yet, in our conversation a few weeks ago, many of Shteyngart\u2019s expressions (such as \u201cthe intertube\u201d) reveal an innocence he has maintained in our own heavily digitized world. He reflects that now, after having lived with this book for three years, he needs to \u201cretreat to the countryside and live in a pristine environment where the iTelephone doesn\u2019t work.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Super Sad True Love Story<\/em> switches between letters, diary entries, and dialogues. Why did you choose these formats?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, you know, it\u2019s sort of hard to read an entire book cover to cover these days. Most people just don\u2019t come with the same equipment that we used to have. When they look at a book they think, \u201cOh my God, it\u2019s so many pages! What am I going to do? How will I ever get through this?\u201d So, you\u2019ll notice the cover of this book is very flashy\u2014it\u2019s almost like you want to press parts of it, hoping that something will pop up. So, the insides of the book\u2014the \u201ctext\u201d you would call it\u2014have the same kind of approach to it. Everything is mixed up, and different stuff comes at you at different speeds. Just as the reader is about to fall asleep with one kind of format, all of the sudden it changes. <\/p>\n

\"\"Your new book also features some bizarre clothing trends, especially those Onionskin jeans. What\u2019s your assessment of fashion today?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, first of all, a couple years ago the pubic bone started making an appearance. I\u2019ve never seen so many pubic bones! I mean, it\u2019s shocking. I know them so well now. Forget the asscrack–that\u2019s been around for a while. <\/p>\n

After placing two novels in the Soviet Union, why did you move away from that setting for your third novel?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boy, it\u2019s getting tiring! You know? When I was growing up in the Soviet Union, it collapsed. I wrote about that collapse in two books already, but I have an uncanny feeling we\u2019re not doing very well here, too. I think I have a sixth sense when it comes to failing empires. That\u2019s sort of my specialty. If I were around during the Roman Empire I\u2019d be writing a book a week. I\u2019d be so happy! I love things on the decline because that\u2019s really the natural progression of our lives. We\u2019re born, we\u2019re feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins. That\u2019s what appeals to me\u2014the long slide into oblivion. <\/p>\n

You have identified yourself and your characters as being \u201cbeta immigrants\u201d\u2014those who don\u2019t achieve success in America. However, with all the Gary Shteyngart praise that\u2019s out there and three published novels, you\u2019ve now become an \u201calpha immigrant.\u201d How does a \u201cbeta immigrant\u201d finally achieve \u201calpha\u201d status?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, it sucks. Part of me still hopes that this book will fail, and I could go back to. . . where would I go? Grad school? Follow my friend James Franco back into the Academy? I\u2019m mortified at the prospect of failure; but, as my shrink has always told me, I\u2019m just as mortified by the prospect of success. It\u2019s tough. Your whole life you\u2019re primed to be\u2014well, everything is really set in the formative years. I went to Hebrew School, so I never considered myself a human being, surrounded by angry Jews who put you down all the time. You\u2019re meant to suck for the rest of your life, and when something good happens you just can\u2019t believe it. <\/p>\n

Literature has a dismal future in Super Sad True Love Story<\/em>. Do you think there are any redeeming qualities about consumer culture and the increasingly digital society we live in?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, the redeeming qualities are the technology. Technology can be positive in an Orwellian sense. I feel like a kind of \u201cWinston Junior\u201d in 1984, and the party\u2019s run by Steve Jobs, he\u2019s \u201cBig Uncle.\u201d But in terms of literature\u2014in terms of what we do\u2014there\u2019s no way in hell it can ever benefit, because it chops up the mind. In fact, speaking of Orwell, that\u2019s pretty much what the party wanted to do \u2014divorce humanity from its language\u2014with Newspeak, in 1984. If you look at the current speak and iPhone-speak, it\u2019s also these staccato little signals that don\u2019t really form a sentence or a paragraph, and certainly not a book.<\/p>\n

That was a great performance in your promo video<\/a>. Have you thought about pursuing acting?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes! I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen\u2019s first wife and co-star in many movies. I\u2019ve done some other indie films, if you look on the YouTube. I love acting\u2014it\u2019s great. I have to broaden my repertoire because, boy, am I ever typecast! \u201cMisogynist Soviet Jew\u201d seems to be the role I\u2019ve been thrust into. I love Paul Giamatti\u2014God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem\u2014the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious. I saw Sideways<\/em> eighteen times. I just thought, \u201cWow, this guy is much bigger loser than I\u2019ll ever be.\u201d But it felt real. <\/p>\n

What about writing for television or film?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I never learned how to write. I can\u2019t read. <\/p>\n

Do you have any advice for young writers?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You have to get an MFA. Without an MFA nobody will look at you right, so you have to get an MFA. You have to go to the right parties (The Paris Review<\/em> is great). \u201cDon\u2019t be pretentious\u201d is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem\u2014just because you\u2019re getting an MFA doesn\u2019t mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don\u2019t temper your personality down with words. Don\u2019t build defensive fortresses around yourself with words\u2014words are your friends.<\/p>\n

How do you want to die?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think it has to be food-related. I think my heart explodes out of happiness, pure joy. Something very fatty\u2014I love Italian lard, they sell blocks of that stuff there. . . it\u2019s like veined marble. . . and then, a couple of vodka shots. . . and then, a Paris Review<\/em> party. Put that all together\u2014I\u2019m eating lard, I\u2019m drinking vodka, I\u2019m being really pretentious, talking about how Madame Bovary<\/em> isn’t my favorite Flaubert novel, and then all of the sudden I explode! Can you imagine that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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