Sam Lipsyte Reads "Show Recent Some Love"

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🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Sam Lipsyte reads his short story from the November 19, 2018, issue of the magazine. Lipsyte is the author of five books of fiction, including the novel "The Ask" and the story collection "The Fun Parts." A new novel, "Hark," will be published in January.

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0:00.0	This is The Writer's Voice, new fiction from The New Yorker.
0:09.1	I'm Deborah Treesman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.
0:12.2	On this episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Sam Lipsite, read his story,
0:16.3	Show Recent Some Love, from the November 19th, 2018 issue of the magazine.
0:21.6	Lipsight is the author of five books of fiction, including the novel The Ask and the story
0:25.6	collection The Fun Parts. A new novel, Hark, will be published in January.
0:30.6	Now here's Sam Lipsight.
0:32.6	Show Recent Some Love.
0:36.6	At this juncture, in this environment, only an ogre could defend Mike Maltby, and Isaac
0:43.3	was not quite the ogre type.
0:45.9	Maybe more on the order of a jerk, according to Nina.
0:49.9	As a human being, a woman, and his life partner, she added,
0:56.7	she felt it was crucial that she made this distinction.
1:01.5	All men, yes, but not all men in all ways.
1:04.5	Environment, climate.
1:08.6	This was code people used for how you really ought to watch your mouth,
1:10.1	not to mention your ass. This wasn't passing weather.
1:13.6	These were the new conditions, like dribbling ice caps or jagged rips in the atmosphere.
1:18.6	There was no quick fix, and no going back. Ask Isaac it was definitely for the best.
1:26.6	History's ceaseless cavalcade of dickheads was undeniable.
1:30.9	A shame, maybe, that a few non-preditor guys got mashed up in the gears of the thing.
1:35.8	But, hey, wasn't this an omelette-making enterprise?
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