Author Gary Shteyngart attends a photocall as a part of Letterature 2011 - Festival Internazionale di Roma at Casa delle Letterature on June 8, 2011 in Rome, Italy.

Learning to Be Bored With Gary Shteyngart

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 26, 2015

The WNYC podcast New Tech City is taking on a big new project to get people to rethink their relationship with technology. They call it Bored and Brilliant. Manoush Zomorodi, host of New Tech City, talks to Leonard about the big project. We are also joined by acclaimed author Gary Shteyngart, who talks about his own relationship with his smartphone.

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