The Daily Beast discusses how Generation X writers (in this case, Bret Easton Ellis and Jennifer Egan) seem depressed as they enter, or in the midst of, middle age: Imperial Bedrooms is not great, but in its better moments the novel contributes to our culture’s rich seam of aging slacker angst. Correction: aging male slacker angst. Aren’t there any bummed-out women past the age of 35 expressing their feelings? Egan it seems, like so many other artists and writers of […]
Papa Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte’s old man gets a nod in the Review this week. Baseball, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Herman Melville are all mentioned.
Bites: Paperbacks, N+1 Editor Scores Big, Ai Poems, Lipsytemania, Baseball Secrets, and More
“How the Paperback Novel Changed Literature” (Thanks Boing Boing) Taking a road trip with David Foster Wallace. N+1 editor scores big. 5 poems by the late Ai. All the Lipsyte you can handle. Everybody is happy about the forthcoming Band of Horses album. The best baseball books. All the dirty little things about baseball players you didn’t know as a kid.
Lorin Stein is a Pimp
At least that’s what this NY Mag article would have you believe. The new Paris Review editor is rolling hard: eating headcheese, getting soused with the bros (Sam Lipsyte and Alex Ambramovich), and not giving a fuck that his peers are “editing scrappier magazines like N+1 and The Believer“.
Coming to America, RUN-D.M.C., Sam Lipsyte…
Those are the three things that I now think of when I hear “Queens, New York”. Over at Flavorpill, Lipsyte gives a walking tour of Astoria. FP: Brooklyn is almost as expensive as Manhattan now. SL: Brooklyn is Manhattan now.
Viral Lipsyte
Ladies and gentleman, may we present to you the newest way to promote a book: The LipSite (Thanks Galley Cat)
Bites: Leg up on Lipsyte, Japanther’s Books, DeLillo on NPR, Digital Librarians, and More
Want to read the first five chapters of Sam Lipsyte’s forthcoming book, The Ask? BAM! Don DeLillo was on NPR to talk about his new book, Point Omega. The guy from Japanther likes some good books. LitKicks calls Patti Smith’s Just Kids, “the first great book of the new decade“. Melville House has a god on their hands. Shakespeare and a little kid. “Tech-savvy librarians” Califone on tour.
Gigantic Magazine is Okay With The U.S.A.
This excites me. Dear readers, Gigantic #2, the America issue, is coming out next month! We promise it will have more screams than a bald eagle, be more stunning than purple mountains majesty and taste almost as fresh as mom’s apple pie. Some of the literary legends whose names will be engraved on the steep cliff of its pages include Sam Lipsyte, Lydia Millet, Clancy Martin, Margo Jefferson, Ken Sparling, Deb Olin Unferth and Adrian Tomine. In anticipation of issue […]