154. Sam Lipsyte

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2013

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Sam Lipsyte is the guest. His new story collection, The Fun Parts, is now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Ben Fountain raves "Lipsyte expertly works the line between hilarity and pathos." And Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, says “In this second story collection, fierce satire mingles with warmth and pathos as Lipsyte (The Ask) showcases his knack for stylistic variety and tangles with the thorny human experiences of moving beyond one’s past or shedding one’s personal baggage . . . Lipsyte’s biting humor suffuses the collection, but it’s his ability to control the relative darkness of each moment that makes the stories so engrossing.” Monologue topics: mountain rescue, urban heroism, mail, ménage-á-trois clarifications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.5	you have found other people you and I have a friend in common every stupid thing that a writer could do
1:15.2	i've done i think it's really beautiful jesus did it what i struggle you know it was incredible
1:20.9	you know it's like your head exploded seeing what was really there and now here's your host
1:25.5	brad listing just one person at just one time. Okay, everybody, here
1:30.7	we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is free collegial banter. This is created under
1:36.4	the influence of caffeine. It's nice to be with you. My name is Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. I think
1:42.9	you know that. And I don't know why I continue to remind you of that fact every time I do a monologue. It's kind of a ritual at this point, a force of habit, telling you who I am and where I'm from. Am I a narcissist? Do I need to work on myself? Very excited about about today's show Sam Lipside is here
2:03.4	he's not actually here with me right now in my apartment at least not that I know of but
2:09.5	he is here on the show he is today's guest which is wonderful news as far as I'm concerned
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