NPR reads The HG

Amusing interview with Gary Shteyngart yesterday on All Things Considered on the occasion of his winning the Wodehouse Prize. (Note that Shteyngart mispronounces "Wodehouse"...) The book is a riot, however, set in a wonderfully dystopian near-future America of complete economic and cultural collapse.

Best neologism is 'verballing', which elevates conversation to the level of 'texting'......