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Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer.

Gary Shteyngart

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Gary Shteyngart
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 5
Journalist
Novelist
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St. Petersburg
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Bashing
Woman
Hammer
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