― steve hise, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
haha wheres the melody etc
― 4 & 3/4, Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Enjoyed two short stories of his I've read recently, The Dungeon Master in the New Yorker and another one in the Paris Review. Haven't read The Ask or anything else.
The Paris Review story makes it clear (I think) that his dad was Robert Lipsyte, who wrote a book about boxing and heroin that I was assigned to read in 8th grade. This story is about a junkie whose dad wrote about boxing, so he decides to write a young-adult book about Marvelous Marvin Hagler. Very funny.
― ok we are pals (Eazy), Monday, 11 October 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Can a mod fix the title to Lipsyte?
― ok we are pals (Eazy), Monday, 11 October 2010 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that dungeon master story was good, i havent read the ask either, just home land, and i liked it ok but it was a lil too 'funny'
― just sayin, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 07:46 (thirteen years ago) link
some fine selections
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/05/sam-lipsyte-s-book-bag-five-bilious-seriocomic-triumphs.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
love this guy. need to read his new one.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
Picked up The Fun Parts yesterday afternoon at the library and was through it a couple hours later. Easily as good as The Ask.
― viacom dios, Thursday, 18 April 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
i'm reading it now, amazing stuff
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 18 April 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
Wow - completely blown away by Venus Drive. this guy rules. fuck any comparisons to Bukowski though
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:10 (seven years ago) link
Newest one was pretty fun, even if the "villain" reads a little heavy handed and all too convenient from 2023 but I like the weirdo LES characters.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 April 2023 21:02 (one year ago) link
Any recs on where to start with this guy?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 07:40 (eleven months ago) link
home land is great
― flopson, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 12:50 (eleven months ago) link
i didn't love the new one. he's a great writer but it just has the same thing where writers try to write about rock bands where it never feels authentic. maybe it was supposed to be kind of silly bc the whole book was a bit cartoonish but it didn't work for me. having the main characters' band be called "the shits" was emblematic of that, plus all the band members having "band names" - none of that feels like NYC in the early '90s to me.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 13:20 (eleven months ago) link