Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert

Magic Lessons Ep. 205: “Call Your Real Life By Its True Name” featuring Gary Shteyngart

Aug 26, 2016

01:18:39

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You Don't Have to Quit Your Job, but You Can't Quit It

01:56

You Know, It's Better Out Than In

03:12

Is There a Need to Reconnect With the Past?

02:56

Introduction

3min

I'm a Catholic, and I Grew Up in a Bar With Six Kids and a Large Irish Catholic Family

2min

I'm a Third-Grade American, I Don't Know Where I Come From.

2min

I Lost a Momentum, Is That Right?

2min

Your Quote on Quote Real Life

2min

Are You Afraid of Your Job?

4min

Don't Quit Your Day Job All the Time

5min

The Story of Angela's Aashes

2min

Two Assignments - I Want You to Write Me an Essay About the History of the Shanache

2min

10.

A Russian Story Teller, a Russian Story Telling Expert, 'Otratit'

2min

11.

The Great Courses Plus - The Fundamentals of Photography

2min

12.

Apoclus Bycast on Maximum Fun Dot Org

3min

13.

The Best Way to Connect With a Person Is Through Laughter

2min

14.

Writing a Novel

2min

15.

A Story Only a Soviet Child Could Write

2min

16.

How Do You Get to the Best Version of That Story?

3min

17.

I'm a Writer, but I Wonder if There's a Feeling Of, Oh, Advertising Is I'm Paid for It, So It's Not.

2min

18.

I'll Probably Go to Law School After That

4min

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Is There a Need to Reconnect With the Past?

3min

20.

Getting by Heven, Garry Steingart

4min

21.

Story Telling Is Not as Frivolous as You Think It Is

2min

22.

How the Iris Saved Civilization

3min

23.

Is Blarney Synonymous With Bolshet?

2min

24.

The Story Teller at the Duplex

2min

25.

How to Tell a Story in Five Minutes

2min

26.

The Turkey Dines With the Fishes to Night

2min

27.

The Stories Sometimes Won't Let You Exhale Till You Tell Them

2min

28.

You Don't Have to Quit Your Job, but You Can't Quit It

2min

29.

Is This Real?

2min

30.

You Know, It's Better Out Than In

3min

31.

I've Always Loved New York City

5min

This week on Magic Lessons, Elizabeth Gilbert advises Colleen, an advertising executive in New York City, who dreams of being a storyteller but fears it's a frivolous pursuit. Colleen hopes to create a one-woman show, mining stories from her childhood growing up in an Irish Catholic family that ran and owned a bar. Liz calls up the writer Gary Shteyngart for additional expertise on the pain and relief that comes with telling family stories.

Special Guest: Gary Shteyngart is the award-winning author of the novels Super Sad True Love Story, Absurdistan, and The Russian Debutante’s Handbook. Born in Leningrad, his memoir Little Failure is a candid and moving account of growing up as a Russian emigre in America. Find out more about him and his work at garyshteyngart.com.

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