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Gary Shteyngart Reads Weike Wang

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Omakase by Waikiwang - A Short Play

Omakase is set in a tiny restaurant, in this hole in the wall. The dialogue here does so much work because it is supposed to both carry the personalities of the people and also the plot. I'm really interested in how things sound when people are talking on stage. And so now whenever I'm reading something that has a, you know, any kind of stage presence,I was thinking, oh, this could be a really nice play.

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