For the weekend

Gary Shteyngart is one of a group of young writers touted by The New Yorker ("20 Under 40"), and his recent novel "Super Sad True Love Story" has gotten some good reviews. He's also a complete buffoon, as evidenced by the trailer he made for the release of the book. There's a second trailer (for the paperback) in which Paul Giamatti plays his twenty-something roommate as they go to a Brooklyn Heights book club meeting trying to pick up women.