Gary Shteyngart

Everything, she's buying this, she's buying that, she's buying clothes, she's looks maxing in her own way.

And at the same time...

She has an ability, especially as the novel continues, to look more inwards and to see the dichotomy between what this society wants from her and what she wants to be.

One of the things, going back to the subject of clavicular, is I find him to be a very tragic figure.

Doesn't seem happy to me.

Like, I just saw pictures of him after getting a rhinoplasty at Noah's job.

His nose seemed fine to me before.

And he just, like, is miserable in their wheelchair.

And it's like, you know, kind of like small legs, right?

And people are making fun of them on the internet.

And you just think, like...

This guy has achieved a level of social notoriety that is remarkable.

I mean, most successful streamer of the age.

And how much happier he would probably be if he had never touched it.

And like, look, I'm not in there, but this is not good for people to be putting that much of their lives forward, to have so little backstage in their own mind.

And you're writing there about a world in which this has become very, very common.

And one of the things that I see in our world is that this has become very, very common.

You know, the number of people with a brand, everybody, you know, on TikTok.

And I wonder what you think it does to people when they keep offering up things that are so cherished to them, right?

Like, and important and that they are insecure about, right?