The 2012-2013 Jewish Community Endowment Fund Lecture with Gary Shteyngart and Dan Schifrin

Taube Center for Jewish Studies - Jewish Community Endowment Fund Lecture March 3, 2013

A Conversation with Gary Shteyngart, novelist, and Dan Schifrin, Writer in Residence at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Introduction by Prof. Gabriella Safran, Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies, Professor and Director, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Chair, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Stanford University.

Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972, and came to the United States seven years later. His debut memoir, Little Failure, was released in 2014 to much critical acclaim. Shteyngart is the author of the novels Super Sad True Love Story (2010), Absurdistan (2006) and The Russian Debutante's Handbook (2002). The Russian Debutante's Handbook won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His fiction and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Esquire, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, etc. His work has been translated into 26 languages.

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