If you haven’t bought yourself a copy of Sam Lipsyte’s new book The Ask, now would be the time to run out and do it. Failing that, ask around amongst your friends and see if anyone else has scored a copy yet. Very few books qualify as smart, pee-your-pants funny, and deadly relevant all at the same time. In this regard, Lipsyte hits the bullseye.
Witness, for proof, this head-over-heels rave from Lydia Millet in the New York Times Book Review, wherein she described the book as one of very few “half-crippled, doughnut-gobbling man-apes of the literary world,” which clearly means something incredible, even if we’re not sure precisely what it is.
Lipsyte, who also wrote the great and hilarious novel Homeland, will be reading at New York’s McNally Jackson bookstore on Tuesday, March 16th. His work will also appear in the forthcoming issue of n+1 Magazine. Dude’s all over the place, and we love it!
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