Sublime

Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story is literally about media alienation, so it can’t really be about media alienation.

This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.

I want to go out. But I have no one to go out with and no clue where to go.” He paused to tell his nieces to shut up. “I’ll probably just get some sushi alone.” I’d assumed that the great Mystery would have girls lined up every night of the week and a wait-list of sargers eager to take him out clubbing. Instead, he was stagnating at home. His fathe

“I’m in the manufacturing business now,” Periwinkle says. “I build things.” “But not books.” “Books. Sure. But mostly I build interest. Attention. Allure. A book is just packaging, just a container. This is what I’ve realized. The mistake people in the book business make is they think their job is to build good containers. Saying you’re in the book