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Gary Shteyngart Reads Weike Wang

The New Yorker: Fiction

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A Man Like That Wouldn't Wait Around Forever

The woman's mother told her she should consider moving to New York. The man kept asking the chef why he'd been fired. During the meal, no one else had come into the restaurant. She imagined taking two toothpicks and sticking them through the man's pretty eyes so they wouldn't roll.

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