Sam Lipsyte

“Sam Lipsyte can get blood out of a stone” – Edmund White. If the Booksmith has prayers, they’ve been answered: the funniest writer in America is coming to Brookline. Sam Lipsyte (Home Land, Venus Drive) has written his third novel, The Ask, a screed against university development, capitalism, ... (more)artistic leanings, and the middle classes. Après Lipsyte, le déluge.

DATE: Thursday, February 19, 2009
AUTHOR: Sam Lipsyte (Writers At Work Series sponsored by Chris Davis, the Kansas City Public Library, UMKC, and Rainy Day Books)
TIME: 7:00 PM
LOCATION: Kansas City Public Library, Central Library, Helzberg Auditorium, 14 W 10th Street, Floor 5, Kansas City, ... (more)Missouri 64105
CONTACT: Kansas City Public Library and UMKC Department of English
TEL: 816-701-3407 for reservations.
New York Magazine once dubbed Sam Lipsyte “one of the ten funniest New Yorkers you’ve never heard of” but since the release of his 2005 novel, Home Land, he’s become of the city’s favorite sons. That book follows the exploits of Lewis Miner, a.k.a. Teabag, a former high school stoner who now writes overly candid letters to his alumni newsletter. The New Yorker called its sensibility “both hilarious and noble” while The New York Times named it a notable book for 2005 and crowned its hero as the “high priest of defects.” Lipsyte is also the author of a novel, The Subject Steve, and the story collection Venus Drive. His work has appeared in Open City, the New York Times Book Review, Slate, The Quarterly, Mother Jones, Nerve, Spin, and the Minus Times, among many others. Originally from New Jersey, he currently lives in Manhattan and teaches fiction at Columbia University. He recently won a Guggenheim Fellowship.
The Writers at Work Series is free and open to the public. Sam Lipsyte's Books will be available for purchase at the Event courtesy of Rainy Day Books.