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Vice Interviews Sam Lipsyte
Vice interviews Sam Lipsyte–good stuff. From the interview, here’s Lipsyte on writing comedy– The page is very different than what a stand-up comic does. A comedian has a physical body—gestures, vocal...
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Books I Will (Make Every Reasonable Attempt to) Read in 2011
If you’re looking for a comprehensive “Books to Look Forward to in 2011″ kind of list, The Millions has you covered. This post is not about books that are coming out in 2011, although some books...
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Sam Lipsyte on Teaching Creative Writing
Sam Lipsyte discusses teaching creative writing at Financial Times (yeah, Financial Times, I know). A few excerpts– When you teach creative writing, you are already on the defensive. People love to...
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It’s Sam Lipsyte Week at Biblioklept
It’s Sam Lipsyte week at Biblioklept. Why? Why not? Okay, here’s a more concrete reason: this month, Picador publishes the trade paperback début of his most recent novel, The Ask, as well as a new...
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“There Are at Least Two or Three Masturbation Scenes”— Sam Lipsyte Defends...
Tagged: Novels, Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
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Venus Drive — Sam Lipsyte
[Editorial note: Biblioklept ran a version of this review last year; we run it again in the spirit of Sam Lipsyte Week]. The thirteen stories in Venus Drive compose a sort of novel-in-stories. The...
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Home Land — Sam Lipsyte
[Editorial note: Biblioklept ran a version of this review last year; we run it again in the spirit of Sam Lipsyte Week]. In Sam Lipsyte’s 2004 novel Home Land, minor loser Lewis Miner sends missives...
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Win a Copy of Sam Lipsyte’s Debut Novel The Subject Steve
To promote their new edition of Sam Lipsyte’s first novel The Subject Steve, Picador will give away two copies of the book to two lucky Biblioklept readers (U.S. addresses only). What do you have to...
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Sam Lipsyte Makes Pork Buns, Considers Placentophagy
Tagged: Cooking the Books, Food, Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
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“I Don’t Know If You’d Call It Stealing”— Sam Lipsyte, Book Thief
Sam Lipsyte read live from his novel The Ask last year on HTML GIANT’s Ustream channel. The reading was cool but the best part was the q&a session afterward. We asked Lipsyte the one question all...
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The Subject Steve — Sam Lipsyte
A few years ago, I wrote about cult novels, and, in trying to define them, I suggested that “a cult book is not (necessarily) a book about cults.” Sam Lipsyte’s first novel The Subject Steve is a...
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Book Acquired, 2.03.2012 — Edward St. Aubyn Edition
Picador has put together all four of Edward St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels in anticipation of the final novel, At Last, which debuts later this month from FS&G. I haven’t read St. Aubyn’s...
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Book Shelves #13, 3.25.2012
Book shelves series #13, thirteenth Sunday of 2012: Four by the late great Russell Hoban. A few Philip K. Dick volumes, although it’s worth pointing out that most of the good stuff I’ve owned by him...
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Maverick Jetpants in the City of Quality (Book Acquired, 9.21.2012)
Bill Peters – Maverick Jetpants in the City of Quality. Not sure if that title is brilliant or awful. This one comes out from Black Balloon next month. Their blurb: Rochester, New York, 1999: An...
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Some Books I Plan to Read in 2013
There are only a handful of forthcoming titles that I know about right now that I’m looking forward to reading next year: story collections from Sam Lipsyte (The Fun Parts) and George Saunders (Tenth...
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Gordon Lish on John the Posthumous (Book Acquired, 6.26.2013)
Some folks I know and whose taste I trust told me about Jason Schwartz, whose new novel (“novel” is not the right word) John the Posthumous is forthcoming from OR Books (the final cover art, which you...
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An interview with the editors of Egress, a new literary magazine devoted to...
Biblioklept: What is Egress? David Winters: Literally: the act or way of leaving a place; an emergence, opening or exit. Egress is also a biannual literary magazine devoted to showcasing the most...
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