Sam Lipsyte

Sam Lipsyte's most recent book is The Ask. He is also the author of Home Land, which was a The New York Times Notable Book for 2005 and winner of The Believer Book Award, as well as The Subject Steve and Venus Drive. His fiction has appeared in The Quarterly, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Noon, Tin House, Open City, n+1, Harper's, McSweeney's, La Nouvelle Revue Francaise and Playboy, among other places. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Esquire, GQ, The Believer and the Washington Post Book World. He was a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow.