{{Short description|American novelist}} {{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see [[:Template:Infobox Writer/doc]]. --> | name = Sam Lipsyte | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = Sam Lipsyte 0538 (cropped).JPG | image_size = | alt = | caption = Lipsyte in 2014 | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1968}} <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S. | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Professor | language = | nationality = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = [[Brown University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) | period = | genre = [[novelist]], [[short story]] writer | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = [[Robert Lipsyte]] (father) | awards = [[New York Times Notable Book of the Year]],<br/>[[Believer Book Award]] | signature = | signature_alt = | module = | website = <!-- www.example.com --> | portaldisp = }} '''Sam Lipsyte''' (born 1968) is an American [[novelist]] and [[short story]] writer.<ref>[http://opencity.org/books/venus-drive ''Venus Drive'', story by Sam Lipsyte], ''[[Open City (magazine)]]''. Accessed July 28, 2011.</ref>
==Early life and education== The son of the sports journalist [[Robert Lipsyte]], Sam Lipsyte was born in [[New York City]] and raised in [[Closter, New Jersey]],<ref>Staff. [http://www.pw.org/content/letters_1 "Corrections"], ''[[Poets & Writers]]'', May/June 2010. Accessed July 28, 2011. "Sam Lipsyte's hometown is Closter, New Jersey, not Demarest, as stated in ''Failure's Fortune'' by [[Frank Bures]] (March/April 2010)."</ref> where he attended [[Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest]].<ref>Lauer, Evelyn. [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/495673269/ "Around Town"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', January 11, 1987. Accessed January 4, 2022, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Those who took honors for poetry are: First prize Edward Zdanek, Dumont High School. Second prize Jeff Janisheski, Don Bosco High School, Ramsey, Sam Lipsyte, Northern Valley Regional High School, Demarest; and Halice Ruppi, Dwight Morrow High School, Englewood."</ref> He attended [[Brown University]], receiving a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1990. At Brown, Lipsyte lived with [[Steven Johnson (author)|Steven Johnson.]]<ref>{{Cite news|last=Johnson|first=Steven|author-link=Steven Johnson (author)|date=2011-10-14|title=I Was an Under-Age Semiotician|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/i-was-an-under-age-semiotician.html|access-date=2022-02-22|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Kachka|first=Boris|title=Has the World Finally Caught Up With Post-Punk Author Sam Lipsyte?|url=https://www.vulture.com/2013/03/sam-lipsyte-fun-parts.html|access-date=2022-02-22|website=Vulture|language=en-us}}</ref>
==Career== Lipsyte was an editor at the webzine ''FEED.''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://trueslant.com/lizandastri/2010/06/07/sam-lipsyte-on-falling-forward-when-theres-no-fallback/ |title=Sam Lipsyte, on falling forward when there's no fallback - Work.Life - Liz Kofman & Astri von Arbin Ahlander - True/Slant |access-date=2010-06-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724080327/http://trueslant.com/lizandastri/2010/06/07/sam-lipsyte-on-falling-forward-when-theres-no-fallback/ |archive-date=2011-07-24 }}</ref> His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in ''The Quarterly'', ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''Harper's'', ''Noon'', ''Tin House'', ''Open City'', [[N+1|''n+1'']], ''Slate'', ''McSweeney's'', ''Esquire'', ''GQ'', ''Bookforum'', ''The New York Times Book Review'', ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[Nouvelle Revue Française]]'', ''[[The Paris Review]]'', ''[http://thislandpress.com This Land]'', and ''Playboy'', among other places.
Lipsyte's work is characterized by its verbal acumen and black humor. His books have been translated into several languages, including French, Russian, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. His novel ''The Ask'' was published in the United States by [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] in 2010, and in the United Kingdom by Old Street Publishing. In May 2011, [[HBO]] announced development of a comedy, "People City," based on Lipsyte's work, with Lipsyte serving as writer and executive producer.<ref>Rose, lacey. [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hbo-developing-comedy-author-sam-191187 "HBO Developing Comedy From Author Sam Lipsyte (Exclusive)"], ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'', May 23, 2011. Accessed July 28, 2011.</ref>
He lives in Manhattan and teaches fiction at [[Columbia University]].<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/writing/faculty/sam-lipsyte.html Sam Lipsyte: Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing], [[Columbia University]]. Accessed July 28, 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Alpern |first1=Emma |title=Novelist Sam Lipsyte Cleaves His Peppers |url=https://www.grubstreet.com/2022/12/sam-lipsyte-grub-street-diet.html |access-date=19 December 2022 |work=Grub Street |date=16 December 2022 |language=en-us}}</ref>
==Awards== His novel ''Home Land'' was a [[New York Times Notable Book of the Year]] for 2005 and winner of the inaugural 2004 [[Believer Book Award]]. ''Venus Drive'' was named one of the 25 Best Books of 2000 by ''The Village Voice Literary Supplement''. In 2008, he received a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]].<ref name=award>{{cite web|title=John Simon Guggenheim|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/sam-lipsyte/|website=www.gf.org|accessdate=12 May 2015}}</ref>
==Bibliography== {{Incomplete list |date=July 2023}}{{bots|deny=Citation bot}}
=== Books === *''Venus Drive'', Open City Books, 2000, {{ISBN|978-1-890447-25-0}} *''The Subject Steve'', Broadway Books, 2001, {{ISBN|978-0-7679-0885-6}}; reprint Random House, Inc., 2002, {{ISBN|978-0-7679-0917-4}} *''Home Land'', Flamingo, 2004, {{ISBN|978-0-00-717036-4}}; Macmillan, 2005, {{ISBN|978-0-312-42418-3}} *''[[The Ask]]'', Macmillan, 2010, {{ISBN|978-0-374-29891-3}} *''The Fun Parts'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012, {{ISBN|978-0-374-29890-6}} *''Hark'', Simon & Schuster, 2019, {{ISBN|978-1501146060}} *''Friend of the Pod'', Gagosian, 2022, {{ISBN|978-1-951449-40-7}} (novella) *''No One Left to Come Looking for You'', Simon & Schuster, 2022, {{ISBN| 978-1501146121}}
===Articles and other contributions === *[https://books.google.com/books?id=DCJuWOn98DUC&dq=Sam+Lipsyte&pg=PA85 "April Fool's Day"], ''The revolution will be accessorized: BlackBook presents dispatches from the new counterculture'', Editor Aaron Hicklin, HarperCollins, 2006, {{ISBN|978-0-06-084732-6}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=TWowAXtM4nUC&dq=Sam+Lipsyte&pg=RA1-PA167 "Dear Miss Primatologist Lady"], ''Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance'', Editors Rosalind Porter, Joshua Knelman, Simon and Schuster, 2008, {{ISBN|978-1-4165-6973-2}} * {{cite journal |author=Lipsyte, Sam |date=January 25, 2021 |title=Waiting for to-go |department=Shouts & Murmurs |journal=The New Yorker |volume=96 |issue=45 |pages=26–27 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/25/waiting-for-to-go <!--|access-date=2023-07-30-->}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095523/http://gulfcoastmag.org/journal/242-summer/fall-2012/i-start-from-a-place-of-outrage-and-sadness-a-conversation-with-elisa-albert,-steve-almond,-brock-clarke,-sam-lipsyte,-zachary-martin,-john-mcnally,-and-deb-olin-unferth/ "I Start From a Place of Outrage and Sadness": A conversation on humor in fiction with Elisa Albert, Steve Almond, Brock Clarke, Sam Lipsyte, Zachary Martin, John McNally, and Deb Olin Unferth in ''Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts'' (24.2)] *[http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/10/04/101004fi_fiction_lipsyte "The Dungeon Master" short fiction in The New Yorker] *[http://therumpus.net/2010/03/underground-no-more-the-rumpus-im-qa-with-sam-lipsyte/ "Underground No More: The Rumpus Interview with Sam Lipsyte"] *[http://thegiganticmag.com/magazine/articleDetail.php?p=articleDetail&id=63 Sam Lipsyte interviewed at Gigantic magazine] *[http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php?id=997 "Face to Face with SAM LIPSYTE"], ''Stop Smiling'', Alex Abramovich, February 1, 2007 *[http://gawker.com/035807/this-home-land-is-your-land-the-sam-lipsyte-imterview "This 'Home Land' is Your Land: The Sam Lipsyte IMterview"], ''Gawker'' *[http://thislandpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Okie-Doke.pdf "Tip #37: Get a Head of Steam for your Self-Esteem"], ''This Land'' *[http://thislandpress.com/06/22/2011/get-a-head-of-steam-for-your-self-esteem/ "Get a Head of Steam for Your Self-Esteem" Video Adaptation], ''This Land'' *[http://indigestmag.com/blog/?p=8032 a profile of Sam Lipsyte by Philip Connors] in [[InDigest Magazine]] {{Closter}}
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