Gary Shteyngart aims for a Little Failure with his new memoir, publishing on January 7. James Franco returns in Shteyngart’s latest amusing trailer, this time playing Shteyngart’s husband and competing author (“Fifty Shades of Gary”). The short also features Rashida Jones, and Jonathan Franzen as the author’s therapist (“I’m so sorry; I’ve got to stop speaking the truth out loud.”), among others. Separately, the Telegraph “is appalled” by an Italian bestseller Cásate y Sé Sumisa (Get Married and Be Submissive), said to have sold almost 100,000 copies, that has just been published in Spain and selling well online there, too. A […]
