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Oct 25

Complex Issues: Gary Shteyngart's 'Lake Success'

By Columbia University School of the Arts

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Thu, October 25, 2018, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT

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Lenfest Center for the Arts 615 West 129th Street The Lantern New York, NY 10027

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Gary Shteyngart, Writing, and Bruce Robbins, English and Comparative Literature

About Gary Shteyngart’s new novel, Lake Success:

“Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his three-year-old son’s diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler, more romantic life with his old college sweetheart. Meanwhile, his super-smart wife, Seema—a driven first-generation American who craved the picture-perfect life that comes with wealth—has her own demons to face. How these two flawed characters navigate the Shteyngartian chaos of their own making is at the heart of this piercing exploration of the 0.1 Percent, a poignant tale of familial longing and an unsentimental ode to what really makes America great.”

Complex Issues explores difference, visibility, and representation through recent work by faculty of Columbia University and Columbia University School of the Arts in particular. Conversations invite challenging questions of racial, ethnic, gender, economic, sexual, religious, and cultural complexity, and how they are articulated across discipline and genre today.

Books available for purchase by Book Culture.

Registration opens September 26, 2018.

Check-in will begin one hour prior to start time. Seating is limited and first come, first served. Advance registration does not guarantee seating; early arrival is suggested.


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