Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. You're my sacred ones, I told the books. No one but me still cares about you. But I'm going to keep you with me forever. And one day I'll make you important again. I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell.


Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel (ed. Random House, 2010) - ISBN: 9780679603597

Gary Shteyngart Quotes

Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as...

Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as...

Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as...

Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as...