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Responding To The World with Jennifer Egan, Gary Shteyngart, Sequoia Nagamatsu and Ali Smith

The Waterstones Podcast

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Technology and Connection in a Country Estatet

All of Garry's books mention technology in some way. Technology is supposed to help us communicate with others, but actually what it does is ruin the communication between human beings. When your characters are forced to spend time together on the country estate that they really do connect on a human level. If you're looking for a partner, that person will come up first. So if you'rein the drinking o, some thing i co identify, yo, then you'll have all these shots of somebody with a martini in their hand. I'm showing you how exactly, if you'reinto roller skating or horse-riding... whatever! You can find out more about my book tour at: www

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