Sam Lipsyte, Author . Broadway $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7679-0885-6
Lipsyte's latest is a dark satire in which a protagonist named Steve is diagnosed with a vague but deadly disease called Prexis that sounds suspiciously like terminal boredom with modern life. Steve's doctors, two shadowy figures known only...
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Sam Lipsyte, Author . Picador $13 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-42418-3
Former Feed
editor Lipsyte was one of the young writers to come out of Open City
's initial rise in the '90s; his collection of short stories was followed by 2001's The Subject Steve
, a kind of condensed Infinite Jest
. This second...
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Sam Lipsyte, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (296p) ISBN 978-0-374-29891-3
Lipsyte’s pitch-black comedy takes aim at marriage, work, parenting, abject failure (the author’s signature soapbox) and a host of subjects you haven’t figured out how to feel bad about yet. This latest slice of mucked-up life...
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Sam Lipsyte, Author , read by the author. Macmillan Audio $23.99 (
, unabridged, seven CDs, 7 hrs., $23.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-4272-1005-0
, unabridged, seven CDs, 7 hrs., $23.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-4272-1005-0
Milo Burke is a trademark Lipsyte creation—a sad sack, sure, but a sweet guy, observant, acerbic, and very winning. A failed painter now working a dead-end job in the fund-raising department of a New York university, Milo is assigned to...
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Sam Lipsyte, Author Open City Books $13 (144p) ISBN 978-1-890447-25-0
Lipsyte's first short story collection gathers together 13 ferocious, truncated sketches, parading before the reader various semi-addicts, telemarketers and others suffering a terminal disconnect between their skills and their status. Not that...
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Sam Lipsyte. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-29890-6
In this second story collection, fierce satire mingles with warmth and pathos as Lipsyte (The Ask) showcases his knack for stylistic variety and tangles with the thorny human experiences of moving beyond one’s past or shedding one’s personal baggage.
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Sam Lipsyte. Simon & Schuster, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4606-0
Lipsyte (The Fun Parts) pillories the mindfulness movement in this acerbic and surprisingly moving novel of a hesitant guru and his self-involved inner circle. Failed comic Hark Morner writes a book and launches an unexpected craze for “mental...
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Sam Lipsyte. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4612-1
At the start of this charming comic mystery set circa 1993 from Lipsyte (Hark), 20-something Jonathan “Jack” Shit, who plays in “the Shits, a fast-disintegrating band” on the fringes of Manhattan’s East Village music scene, is awakened by a call...
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