Sam Lipsyte (born 1968) is an American

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and

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writer.

Life

The son of the sports journalist Robert Lipsyte, Sam Lipsyte was born in

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and raised in

Closter, New Jersey Closter (Westergaard, Barbara"Closter: Bergen" ''New Jersey: A Guide to the State'', p. 78. Rutgers University Press, 2006. . Accessed July 22, 2011. "Known locally as the "hub of the Northern Valley," Closter (pronounced with a long ''o'') was ...

, where he attended Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest. He attended

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, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1990. At Brown, Lipsyte lived with Steven Johnson. Lipsyte was an editor at the webzine ''FEED.'' His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in ''The Quarterly'', The New Yorker, ''Harper's'', ''Noon'', ''Tin House'', ''Open City'', ''N+1'', ''Slate'', ''McSweeney's'', ''Esquire'', ''GQ'', ''Bookforum'', ''The New York Times Book Review'', ''

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', 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 in the United States by

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in 2010, and in the United Kingdom by Old Street Publishing. In May 2011,

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announced development of a comedy, "People City," based on Lipsyte's work, with Lipsyte serving as writer and executive producer. He lives in Manhattan and teaches fiction at

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Awards

His novel ''Home Land'' was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2005 and winner of the inaugural 2004 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

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Bibliography

Books

*''Venus Drive'', Open City Books, 2000, *''The Subject Steve'', Broadway Books, 2001, ; reprint Random House, Inc., 2002, *''Home Land'', Flamingo, 2004, ; Macmillan, 2005, *''

The Ask ''The Ask'' is a novel by Sam Lipsyte, published by Macmillan in 2010 (). Summary Per Michael K. Walonen, the novel: focuses on the American university, long seen as a bastion of resistance or at least indifference to the world of money, tha ...

'', Macmillan, 2010, *''The Fun Parts'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012, *''Hark'', Simon & Schuster, 2019, *''Friend of the Pod'', Gagosian, 2022, (novella) *''No One Left to Come Looking for You'', Simon & Schuster, 2022,

Articles and other contributions

"April Fool's Day"
''The revolution will be accessorized: BlackBook presents dispatches from the new counterculture'', Editor Aaron Hicklin, HarperCollins, 2006,
"Dear Miss Primatologist Lady"
''Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance'', Editors Rosalind Porter, Joshua Knelman, Simon and Schuster, 2008, *

References

External links

"I Start From a Place of Outrage and Sadness": A conversation on humor in fiction with Elisa Albert, Steve Almond, Brock Clarke, Sam Lipsyte, Zachary Martin, John McNally, and Deb Olin Unferth in ''Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts'' (24.2)"The Dungeon Master" short fiction in The New Yorker"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 1, 2007
"This 'Home Land' is Your Land: The Sam Lipsyte IMterview"
''Gawker''
"Tip #37: Get a Head of Steam for your Self-Esteem"
''This Land''
"Get a Head of Steam for Your Self-Esteem" Video Adaptation
''This Land''
a profile of Sam Lipsyte by Philip Connors
in InDigest Magazine {{DEFAULTSORT:Lipsyte, Sam 1968 births Living people 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American short story writers American male novelists American male short story writers American online publication editors Believer Book Award winners Brown University alumni Columbia University faculty Jewish American novelists The New Yorker people Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest alumni Novelists from New Jersey Novelists from New York City People from Closter, New Jersey Writers from Bergen County, New Jersey