Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte (born 1968) is an American novelist and short story writer.[1]
The son of the sports journalist Robert Lipsyte, Sam Lipsyte was born in New York City and raised in New Jersey. He lives in Manhattan, and teaches fiction at Columbia University.[2]
Lipsyte was an editor at the webzine FEED.[3] His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Quarterly, Harper's, Noon, Tin House, Open City, N+1, Slate, McSweeney's, Esquire, GQ, Bookforum, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, La Nouvelle Revue Francaise, The Paris Review, and Playboy, among other places. Lipsyte's work is characterized by its verbal acumen and black humor. His books have been translated into several languages, including French, Russian, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. His novel The Ask was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2010.
Awards
His novel Home Land was a New York Times Notable Book for 2005 and winner of the Believer Book Award. Venus Drive was named one of the 25 Best Books of 2000 by The Village Voice Literary Supplement. In 2008 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Bibliography
- Venus Drive, Open City Books, 2000, ISBN 9781890447250
- The Subject Steve, Broadway Books, 2001, ISBN 9780767908856; reprint Random House, Inc., 2002, ISBN 9780767909174
- Home Land, Flamingo, 2004, ISBN 9780007170364; Macmillan, 2005, ISBN 9780312424183
- The Ask, Macmillan, 2010, ISBN 9780374298913
Anthologies
- "Dear Miss Primatologist Lady", Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance, Editors Rosalind Porter, Joshua Knelman, Simon and Schuster, 2008, ISBN 9781416569732
- "April Fool's Day", The revolution will be accessorized: BlackBook presents dispatches from the new counterculture, Editor Aaron Hicklin, HarperCollins, 2006, ISBN 9780060847326
Reviews
The test for the obsessive prose stylist who lacks an instinctive gift for storytelling is always the same: what's the minimum amount of plot you can get away with and still function within the parameters of a novel? Basically, the more style you have, the less plot you need. So if it takes little time to sketch the plot of Sam Lipsyte's The Ask, that's a backhanded way of saying it's a stylistic tour de force.[4]
On the strength of three previous novels, Lipsyte has fashioned himself as America's bard of highly educated disgruntlement. Like Joseph Heller in "Catch-22," this puppeteer of delusional creatures communicates despair through rapid-fire dialogue, several varieties of non sequitur and cleverly coiled punch lines. "Home Land" is unforgettably structured as a profane collection of rants delivered to the protagonist's high school alumni newsletter. "The Ask" is a far more ambitious social comedy, couched in an economic anxiety that threatens grand-scale emasculation.[5]
Sam Lipsyte’s third novel, “The Ask,” is a dark and jaded beast — the sort of book that, if it were an animal, would be a lumbering, hairy, cryptozoological ape-man with a near-crippling case of elephantiasis.[6]
References
- ^ http://www.opencity.org/lipsyte.html
- ^ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/writing/faculty/sam-lipsyte.html
- ^ http://trueslant.com/lizandastri/2010/06/07/sam-lipsyte-on-falling-forward-when-theres-no-fallback/
- ^ "The Ask by Sam Lipsyte", The Observer, Geoff Dyer, June 2010
- ^ "'The Ask: A Novel' by Sam Lipsyte", The Los Angeles Times, Akiva Gottlieb, February 28, 2010
- ^ "Target Practice", The New York Times, LYDIA MILLET, March 4, 2010
External links
- "Underground No More: The Rumpus Interview with Sam Lipsyte"
- Sam Lipsyte interviewed at Gigantic magazine
- "Face to Face with SAM LIPSYTE", Stop Smiling, Alex Abramovich, February 01, 2007
- "This 'Home Land' is Your Land: The Sam Lipsyte IMterview", Gawker
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