Books by Sam Lipsyte
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review 1: Lipsyte is hilarious, he also carves out exquisitely arranged prose and has characters that exist and something close to clarity of vision that will go as close to genius as we are probably going to get these days. Whether or not these characteristics always lead to fictions that...
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review 1: I wanted to like this book. I really did. In the end, though, it was just a little too cute, a little too snarky, a little too clever and full of itself for me to really enjoy. It reminded me of a hipster who is not nearly as cool and insightful as he thinks he is. While the ...
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review 1: "The Fun Parts" is one of the funniest collections I've read. "The Climber Room", which first appeared in The New Yorker, literally had me laughing out loud. Some of the more sinister, disturbing pieces, while extremely funny, were difficult reads, but it truly was "fun" to get i...