• Arlene Farkas, the ex-wife of real estate heir Bruce Farkas, has dropped the price of her 14-room duplex at the River House, which she first put on the market in November for $15 million after a state appeals court turned down her ex-husband's appeal to retain ownership of the apartment. The co-op is now listed…

• Dr. Lindsay Rosenwald appears to have given up on his seemingly hopeless quest to find someone willing to pay $90 million for his four-bedroom apartment at 15 CPW—for the time being, at least. The biotech venture capitalist, who paid $30 million for a duplex on the building's 18th and 19th floors last April and …

Gary Shteyngart, a loveable, furry Russian immigrant, is the bestselling novelist and satirist credited with inventing the contemporary Russian-American novel. He is known for his self-deprecating humor and dystopian take on modern society.

This Grub Street recounting of a week in the diet of novelist and Good contributor Gary Shteyngart is charming enough, but for some reason we can't take our eyes off the photo. Shown eating breakfast at LES staple Brown, Shteyngart appears to be almost unhinging his jaw to devour one forkful; girlfriend Mabel Hwang…