Sam Lipsyte

Author Sam Lipsyte discusses his life and writing.
Sam Lipsyte

photo: Sam Lipsyte, NYC, 2010, by Graeme Mitchell

Sam Lipsyte is the author of the novels The Ask, Home Land, and The Subject Steve, in addition to the collection of short stories Venus Drive. His fiction and non-fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Playboy, The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post, among many other places. His honors include a Believer Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He currently lives in New York City and teaches creative writing at Columbia.