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Gary Shteyngart flew on American Airlines. This is what happened.

You, American Airlines, should no longer be flying across the Atlantic. You do not have the know-how. You do not have the equipment. And your employees have clearly lost interest in the endeavor. Like the country whose name graces the hulls of your flying ships, you are exhausted and shorn of purpose. You need to stop.

Flight 121 from Paris to New York began on a clear autumn afternoon. It ended over 30 hours later. For those of us without miles, it is probably still going…

Read A Trans-Atlantic Trip Turns Kafkaesque in the NYT.

Alex Gilvarry, whose novel From the Memoirs of A Non-Enemy Combatant is about a Filipino fashion designer who’s set to take New York by storm…until he gets thrown into Guantanamo as a terror suspect.

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We’re giving away three hardcover copies of From the Memoirs of A Non-Enemy Combatant, signed by the author. To get a copy, answer these questions in Comments.

1. Where did Alex write his novel?
2. Is the character Boyet based on a real person?
3. What is his next novel about?

Thanks to National Bookstore for the signed copies! From the Memoirs of A Non-Enemy Combatant is available at National Bookstores.

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The winner of last week’s podcast quiz is top51. Congratulations! Please post your full name in Comments (It won’t be published) and we’ll alert you when your books have been delivered to NBS Rockwell.

Update: top51, we’ll send your prizes to the Rockwell branch next week when we get back from the Ubud Writers Festival. (Yes it sounds like lumpia.)