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Sam Lipsyte

Biography

Sam Lipsyte

Sam Lipsyte was born in 1968. He is the author of the story collection VENUS DRIVE (named one of the top 25 books of its year by the Voice Literary Supplement) and three novels: THE ASK, THE SUBJECT STEVE, and HOMELAND, 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.
 

Books by Sam Lipsyte

The Fun Parts: Stories
by Sam Lipsyte - Fiction, Short Stories

Sam Lipsyte’s second collection of short stories features the characters you would expect to see in a Lipsyte book: wise-cracking slackers from New York and New Jersey, most of them male, with drug and commitment problems. But you also get well-rounded female characters, touching moments between dying parents and their adult progeny, and surprisingly poetic writing. THE FUN PARTS fulfills the promise of VENUS DRIVE, Lipsyte’s vivid first collection.