To celebrate the launch of The LipSite we're giving away signed copies of Sam Lipsyte's Home Land, Venus Drive and his newest novel, The Ask.
The LipSite?
Our brand new weekly dose of Lipsyte wit, delivered precisely at the most depressing point of your workweek. In addition to excerpts from Lipsyte's fiction, we'll also feature interviews and maybe a note or two from the man himself. We promise to keep the emails short and simple, so you're not too distracted from your job.
The Ask?
Milo Burke, a development officer at a third-tier university, has "not been developing": after a run-in with a well-connected undergrad, he finds himself among the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after odd jobs to support his wife and child, Milo is offered one last chance by his former employer: he must reel in a potential donor—a major "ask"—who, mysteriously, has requested Milo's involvement. But it turns out that the ask is Milo's sinister college classmate Purdy Stuart. And the "give" won't come cheap. Probing many themes— or, perhaps, anxieties—including work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row, and the eroticization of chicken wire,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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Video: Sam Lipsyte at the FSG Reading Series
Read the first 20 pages of The Ask at GQ
For more information about this book, click here.
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