Sam Lipsyte is the guest. His new novel,
Hark, is available now from Simon & Schuster.
This is Sam's second time on the podcast. He first appeared in
Episode
154, on March 6, 2013.
Lipsyte is the author of the story collections Venus
Drive (named one of the top twenty-five books of its year
by the Voice Literary Supplement) and The Fun
Parts, and three other novels: The Ask, The
Subject Steve, and Home Land, which was a New
York Times Notable Book and received the first annual
Believer Book Award. He is also the recipient of a
Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in New York City and teaches at
Columbia University.
In today's monologue, I talk about my condition during this
interview.