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Sam Lipsyte was born in 1968. He is the author of the story collection Venus Drive (named one of the top twenty-five book of its year by the Village Voice Supplement) and the novels The Subject of Steve and Home Land, winner of the Believer Book Award. Lipsyte teaches at Columbia Universitys School of The Arts and is a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in Manhattan.


Average rating: 3.45 · 5,383 ratings · 1,070 reviews · 17 distinct works
The Ask
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 2,855 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions
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Home Land
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 1,245 ratings7 editions
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Venus Drive
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
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The Subject Steve
3.28 of 5 stars 3.28 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions
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Venus Drive: Stories
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010
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Douce Amérique
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“Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of the dead? Is that a feeling?”
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“We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. The trick is to use different spoons.”
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“I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.”
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31417 Q&A with Sam Lipsyte — 40 members — last activity Apr 09, 2010 08:05am
I'm hosting a discussion of my new novel THE ASK from March 15th-26th, answering questions while on tour. Please invite your friends to this group. Loo...more



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