Sam Lipsyte

Sam Lipsyte
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Sam Lipsyte was born in 1968. He is the author of the story collection Venus Drive (named one of the top twenty-five books of its year by the Voice Literary Supplement) and three novels: The Ask, The Subject Steve and Home Land, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the first annual Believer Book Award. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

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In Studio: Sam Lipsyte reads The Ask

The Ask is a burst of genius by a young American master who has already demonstrated that the truly provocative and important fictions are often the funniest ones.

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Lipsyte on the Read Roll Show

Lipsyte’s first novel. The author losing his mother, and making fiction. (Backyard flowers, birds.)

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Sam Lipsyte at the FSG Reading Series

Novelist Sam Lipsyte reads from The Ask at the Russian Samovar as a part of the FSG Reading Series.

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The Ask
The Ask

Sam Lipsyte
Picador

A New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Milo Burke—husband, father, development officer at a third-tier university—has...


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The Subject Steve
The Subject Steve

Sam Lipsyte
Picador

Meet Steve (not his real name), a Special Case, in truth a Terminal Case, and the eponymous antihero of Sam Lipsyte’s first novel. Steve has been informed by...


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Venus Drive
Venus Drive

Sam Lipsyte
Picador

An intense, mordantly funny collection of short fiction from the author of Home Land and The Ask.


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Home Land
Home Land

Sam Lipsyte
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What if somebody finally wrote to his high school alumni bulletin and told...the truth! Here is an update from hell, and the most brilliant work to date, by...


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