Sam Lipsyte

Historical analogies between the Civil War period and our own time are plentiful in a conversation about the author’s much-anticipated first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo.

One of my favorite books of short fiction from the last few years is Sam Lipsyte’s The Fun Parts. I often assign stories from it in my workshops and have been waiting for an opportunity to teach the whole collection. 

This interview is featured, along with thirty-four others, in our anthology BOMB: The Author Interviews.

Sam Lipsyte appeared at BookCourt to read from his darkly funny novel The Ask, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Sam Lipsyte’s work may be grouped into the minimalist genre, but that doesn’t mean there’s anything subverted about the content of his new collection Venus Drive.