Episode description
Gary Shteyngart’s new book is “Our Country Friends”, which he began writing during the first month of the pandemic. It’s the story of eight friends who shelter in place at the upstate New York home of a Russian-born American writer. His previous books include “Super Sad True Love Story” and “Absurdistan”. On November 8, 2021, Gary Shteyngart joined Andrew Sean Greer, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of “Less”, to talk about finding humor in dystopic times.