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Rand Illusion
... Freiman is a gifted stylist, part of a tradition that is traceable from forebears such as Martin Amis, Sam Lipsyte, Lorrie Moore, and NW-era Zadie Smith, to fellow travelers like Andrew Martin, Tony...
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DIY PI
... ONE OF SAM LIPSYTE’S SIGNATURE ACCOMPLISHMENTS has been to find the baroque musicality in the emergent vocabularies—commercial, bureaucratic, wellness-industrial, pornographic—opened up by...
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Horse’s Mouth
... shouts with the noose around his neck, the brutal irony (but whose? is still the question) made me cry all over again. —SAM LIPSYTE RIGHT NOW, I’m reading like a fiend, as I always do in the summer...
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The Year of Magic Thinking
... Jerry West from demanding some form of retraction for the series’ over-the-top depiction of him as a combustible Yosemite Sam in double knits. (West is so integral to the league that he is known as...
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Jelani Cobb named new dean of Columbia Journalism School; Patricia Lockwood has won the Dylan Thomas Prize
... at 7:30, he will discuss his work with novelist Sam Lipsyte at Greenlight Bookstore. ...
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Kay Gabriel on Eric Adams’s politics of criminalization; Garth Greenwell will read tonight from his novel in progress
...thenation.com/article/politics/lily-geismer-left-behind-qa/> about her new book, Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality. In Harper’s Magazine, Sam Lipsyte visits
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Announcing the 2022 Guggenheim Fellows; Erin Somers notes a resurgence in the use of the term “Künstlerroman”
...> of Sean Thor Conroe’s novel Fuccboi, and has since endeavored to find the source of what seems to be a trend. According to Somers, that credit goes to Sam Lipsyte, who reminded her never to omit...
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Dana Spiotta on her new novel; Mahogany L. Browne named Lincoln Center’s poet in residence
... Center for Fiction. The event is free and will be held on Zoom. At the New Yorker, Sam Lipsyte discusses his latest story...
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Like Rain on Your Wedding Day
... (Lydia Millet’s The Children’s Bible, Sam Lipsyte’s Hark). All of them see their protagonists’ midlife problems mirrored in global political crises. The evils may be disembodied (climate change for...
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One Pill Makes You Smaller
... quite ended. It atrophied. Examples of the Gen X Midlife-Crisis Novel include Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer, Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss, Hark by Sam Lipsyte, A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet...
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Do Your Job
... Meantime, pass the peanut butter. Sam Lipsyte is the author of The Ask (2010), The Fun Parts (2013, both Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Hark (Simon & Schuster, 2019). ...
