The Greene Space at WNYC & WQXR | Get Lit with All of It: Gary Shteyngart @GreeneSpaceNY | Uploaded February 2022 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
Alison Stewart and team All Of It are bringing Get Lit back into the studio for the first time since March 2020! Heralding the return of the in-person book club is Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart. The New York Times calls it “A perfect novel for these times and all times, the single textual artifact from the pandemic era I would place in a time capsule as a representation of all that is good and true and beautiful about literature.”
In the rolling hills of upstate New York, a group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family. Both elegiac and very, very funny, Our Country Friends is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved bestseller Super Sad True Love Story.
How it Works
- Get the book, reach out to a friend to join, and read along with Alison and Team All Of It
- Follow @allofitwnyc on Instagram
where you’ll find polls, questions, fun facts and pictures of other readers
- Watch the live video stream here on this page as Alison talks with the author
Viewers are encouraged to submit their questions for the guests on Twitter and Instagram.
All Of It teams up with the New York Public Library so that New Yorkers can access the book for free through the NYPL app.
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Alison Stewart and team All Of It are bringing Get Lit back into the studio for the first time since March 2020! Heralding the return of the in-person book club is Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart. The New York Times calls it “A perfect novel for these times and all times, the single textual artifact from the pandemic era I would place in a time capsule as a representation of all that is good and true and beautiful about literature.”
In the rolling hills of upstate New York, a group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family. Both elegiac and very, very funny, Our Country Friends is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved bestseller Super Sad True Love Story.
How it Works
- Get the book, reach out to a friend to join, and read along with Alison and Team All Of It
- Follow @allofitwnyc on Instagram
where you’ll find polls, questions, fun facts and pictures of other readers
- Watch the live video stream here on this page as Alison talks with the author
Viewers are encouraged to submit their questions for the guests on Twitter and Instagram.
All Of It teams up with the New York Public Library so that New Yorkers can access the book for free through the NYPL app.
Stay up to date with upcoming events at The Greene Space by signing up for our newsletter:
thegreenespace.org/contact-us/sign-up-for-our-newsletter
Follow The Greene Space on social:
Facebook: facebook.com/thegreenespace
Instagram: instagram.com/greenespacenyc
Twitter: twitter.com/TheGreeneSpace
The Greene Space is funded by you. Make a monthly donation of $10 or more to support us and all the programs and podcasts you love from WNYC, WQXR, Gothamist and more!
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