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Gary Shteyngart Reads Weike Wang

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Man and the Woman

The characters in this short story don't have names. What do you think that tactic is? It's a writer. I think the strategy pays off because of the humor. When you're doing this kind of minimalist humor, monomalysts, whatever we were calling it, like what level of detail do you allow? So for example, what does central Harlem do? Like, what's the inclusion of that do to the piece?

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