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Sam Lipsyte

Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte is the author of the story collections Venus Drive and The Fun Parts and four novels: Hark, 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. His new novel, No One Left to Come Looking for You is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in December.


Sam Lipsyte on the What and the How of Writing

“Style is your filter on all of this... how it summons language in you, how life comes to be alive on the page.”
December 9, 2022  By Sam Lipsyte
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Back to School for Everyone: Sports and Contemporary Writing with Sam Lipsyte

The Thrill of Agony, the Victory of Defeat
September 6, 2022  By Sam Lipsyte
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Sam Lipsyte on the Key to Writing: “It All Has to Be the Good Part.”

On Writer's Block, His Old Man Name, and Why Anyone Would Read Your Work
January 17, 2019  By Sam Lipsyte
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