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Arts & Entertainment

Gary Shteyngart- Distinguished Writers Series

Event located in Cabot Intercultural Auditorium (Room 302)

Q&A and Reception to follow

Gary Shteyngart is the author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook (2002),Absurdistan (2006), and Super Sad True Love Story (2010). His writing has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, and Slate. He is the winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, the Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award, the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Literature. Shteyngart teaches in the graduate writing program at Columbia University.

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