Bildongsroman (ft. Gary Shteyngart)

We're back! We're talkin schlong! We're on Patreon, finally!


It's season 4....after taking a month and half off from the show
to work on their tans, Lauren and Drew return, joined, this time,
by the beloved novelist Gary Shteyngart, zooming in from his
Rolex-stuffed country estate in the Hudson Valley. Knowing that
many of our listeners are fans of Gary's work for its wit, humor
and aching portrayals of soviet jewish anxiety (cosplaying a lit
critic today lol), we decided to engage Gary exclusively on the
subject of his penis. Gary, whose penis's travails began at the
age of 7 when we underwent a botched circumcision inflicted by
singing Hasids, was more than happy to discuss his New Yorker
story about the trials and tribulations of his mangled member
(his Bildongsroman, if you will). What followed was a congenial
discussion of not only his fucked up penis but also his decadent
forays into watches, ant larvae, and more; Phillip Roth's sex
advice to a young starstruck Gary; and a truly overwhelming raft
of dick jokes that all seemed to point in the same direction: a
serious consideration of the limits of humor's liberating
properties and the delicate process of transforming real ongoing
pain into art (I told you I was cosplaying a lit critic today
lol).


Thank you Gary! Hope to see you at the tinned fish restaurant
soon.


To the rest of you - patreon.com/ourstruggle.


Reach out - teixeira.lauren@gmail.com; deohringer@gmail.com