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

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. This week's sponsors: Audible, The Great Courses Plus, and Stamps.com Use the promo code: Lessons

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Magic Lessons Ep. 205: “Call Your Real Life By Its True Name” featuring Gary Shteyngart is an episode from Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert by Elizabeth Gilbert and Maximum Fun.

This episode is 01:18:39 long.

This episode was published on Aug 26, 2016.

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