http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/culture/video-gary-shteyngart-on-dachshu... How much of what ails America can be blamed on Facebook? According to best-selling author Gary Shteyngart, quite a lot. Shteyngart's new satirical novel, "Super Sad True Love Story," imagines a world in which the American economy has collapsed and people no longer read. People communicate primarily in online slang, through smart phones and social networking sites. Shteyngart speaks with NEED TO KNOW's Jon Meacham about nostalgia for communication in an ever-digitizing world, the heroism of immigration, and his childhood novel -- commissioned by his grandmother -- starring Lenin and a magical goose. Need to Know airs Fridays on PBS. Watch full-length episodes of Need to Know at http://video.pbs.org/program/1458405365/
@melkaira Oh, please. NYU students! They're on the cutting edge of vacuousness.
princeandrey 3 months ago
The whiteness of Meacham's eyes is distracting.
melkaira 8 months ago
Bullshit that college kids at NYU didn't know how to interact without Facebook. He's a one idea guy and an old idea at that.
landline00 10 months ago
I heard them talking about this on NPR the day before yesterday.
It's actually a pretty good newstory.
Which is quite a change from the ussual drivel that this new "Need To Know" series puts out.
For example, one of their first stories/vidios was about the "danger" of parents letting their kids eat hotdogs, because of "the risk of choking".
SinnFein4ever 1 year ago