The Sensualist: Adventures in Pure Pleasure with Gary Shteyngart

Join us for an engaging book talk with Gary Shteyngart—one of our generation’s most exhilarating and beloved essayists—as we explore his newest collection, The Sensualist. In The Sensualist, Shteyngart travels the world and throughout New York City on adventures big and small. He searches for the best martini, chases capybaras, rides an incredibly expensive cruise ship. At their essence, his humor filled essays are about joy and what life can offer. Join Shteyngart for what is bound to be a laughter filled morning at Lehrhaus as we dive deeper into his new book. . . . Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the United States seven years later. His essays appear regularly in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times and have been featured in nine Best American anthologies. He is the author of six bestselling novels including The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Super Sad True Love Story, Our Country Friends, and Vera, or Faith. His books have won several awards including the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic literature, the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, the National Jewish Book Award, and have been published in thirty countries. His memoir, Little Failure, was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in New York with his wife, son, and dog.