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American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

Gary Shteyngart

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Gary Shteyngart
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 5
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
St. Petersburg
American
Read
Good
Would
Fiction
Somebody
Nice

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