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Gary Shteyngart Reads Weike Wang

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

Is This Evening So Destabilizing?

The actress says she's shocked by the similarities and dissimilarities between her immigrant group and younger people. The waitress is hyper-self-aware, but also has a dream about what it would mean to have a lip ring and then end up in prison. "What if you ended here? Like, that's a good, good punchline"

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