Sam Lipsyte

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American novelist

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birth_placeNew York City, U.S.
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educationBrown University (BA)
genrenovelist, short story writer
relativesRobert Lipsyte (father)
awardsNew York Times Notable Book of the Year,
Believer Book Award
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Early life and education

The son of the sports journalist Robert Lipsyte, Sam Lipsyte was born in New York City and raised in Closter, New Jersey, where he attended Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest. He attended Brown University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1990. At Brown, Lipsyte lived with Steven Johnson.

Career

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, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Nouvelle Revue Française, The Paris Review, This Land, 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 Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2010, and in the United Kingdom by Old Street Publishing. In May 2011, HBO 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 Columbia University.

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 Guggenheim Fellowship.

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, 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

References

  1. [http://opencity.org/books/venus-drive ''Venus Drive'', story by Sam Lipsyte], ''[[Open City (magazine)]]''. Accessed July 28, 2011.
  2. Staff. [http://www.pw.org/content/letters_1 "Corrections"], ''[[Poets & Writers]]'', May/June 2010. Accessed July 28, 2011. "Sam Lipsyte's hometown is Closter, New Jersey, not Demarest, as stated in ''Failure's Fortune'' by [[Frank Bures]] (March/April 2010)."
  3. Lauer, Evelyn. [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/495673269/ "Around Town"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey). The Record]]'', January 11, 1987. Accessed January 4, 2022, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Those who took honors for poetry are: First prize Edward Zdanek, Dumont High School. Second prize Jeff Janisheski, Don Bosco High School, Ramsey, Sam Lipsyte, Northern Valley Regional High School, Demarest; and Halice Ruppi, Dwight Morrow High School, Englewood."
  4. Johnson, Steven. (2011-10-14). "I Was an Under-Age Semiotician". [[The New York Times]].
  5. Kachka, Boris. "Has the World Finally Caught Up With Post-Punk Author Sam Lipsyte?".
  6. "Sam Lipsyte, on falling forward when there's no fallback - Work.Life - Liz Kofman & Astri von Arbin Ahlander - True/Slant".
  7. Rose, lacey. [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hbo-developing-comedy-author-sam-191187 "HBO Developing Comedy From Author Sam Lipsyte (Exclusive)"], ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'', May 23, 2011. Accessed July 28, 2011.
  8. [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/writing/faculty/sam-lipsyte.html Sam Lipsyte: Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing], [[Columbia University]]. Accessed July 28, 2011.
  9. (16 December 2022). "Novelist Sam Lipsyte Cleaves His Peppers". Grub Street.
  10. "John Simon Guggenheim".

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