Gary Shteyngart Finally Out-Blurbs Himself

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By Anne Cohen March 19, 2014

Novelist Gary Shteyngart is known for being an “enthusiastic blurb-writer.”

But nothing can possibly beat this one.

Writing about “Walter Potter’s Curious World of Taxidermy,” a book by Pat Morris and Joanna Ebenstein, which, as the name suggests, tells the story of Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter, Shteyngart said:

“Walter Potter’s Curious World of Taxidermy” is one of hte most important books I’ve read on Victorian taxidermy in months. It’s like Thomas Hardy’s “Jude the Obscure,” but with squirrels.” — New York Times: T Magazine

Rapper Cee-Lo Green, featured opposite Shteyngart in a T Magazine “Take Two” had this to say about the book:

“I can’t imagine the type of special individual it takes to do this. I don’t have any animals that are stuffed, but I’ve got some stuffed animals — a panther, a Rottweiler, a couple little doggies I’ve found along the way.”

Budding taxidermists can place their order [here][3].

[3]: I can’t imagine the type of special individual it takes to do this. I don’t have any animals that are stuffed, but I’ve got some stuffed animals — a panther, a Rottweiler, a couple little doggies I’ve found along the way.

Anne Cohen was the Forward’s deputy digital media editor. When she’s not looking for the secret Jewish history of Voodoo in New Orleans, or making lists about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she writes for The Assimilator. She graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with an M.S. magazine concentration in 2012.

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