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Sam Lipsyte on the What and the How of Writing

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.”

By Sam Lipsyte | December 9, 2022

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Back to School for Everyone: Sports and Contemporary Writing with Sam Lipsyte

The Thrill of Agony, the Victory of Defeat

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