Gary Shteyngart
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It was called to write into your desk.
Literally, that is the highest level of writing.
Right.
Because nobody will see it.
But I did not want to write into my desk.
I wanted the world.
I was this
Like I said, small furry immigrant, strange sense of self.
I wanted people to read my books and say, oh, look at this.
These people exist too, you know.
But when I saw MySpace and Facebook, I thought everyone's a writer now.
There are no barriers.
Now, on the one hand, that sounds great.
More democracy than ever, right?
Everyone now is whatever, is Aristotle.
Everyone will express themselves.
But then...
I lived for about half a year, a year more on those platforms.
And I thought, this is just garbage.
We're on this all the time.