Dances with Concepts: a Conversation with Sam Lipsyte [Part 1 of 2]
You get stories that weave in and out of each other and contradict each other and create new narratives. That’s more exciting to me than one long story with a message of, say, capitalism is bad or war is deplorable. We know that — let’s dance with those concepts and see what else happens. I’ll […]
A Weekend of Fucking Nazis: Eddie Izzard, Stoker, Community
I. Cosmology Recently, Benjamin Van Loon resurrected a thorny old idea – cosmology – to describe the stronger, darker force than animates Sam Lipsyte’s ephemeral and satirical jests. The thorniness of the issue we owe, in part, to the postmodern conceit that everything is art, everyone is an artist, and in part to an older […]
The Fun Parts Here
Let’s talk about cosmology for a second. You can sometimes glimpse it in a fiction writer’s language, see those nebulae effervescing as the characters attract and repel—or in Sam Lipsyte’s case with the Fun Parts, verbally (and sometimes physically) (but not literally) ripping each other new assholes. The ebb and flow of Lipsyte’s universe is one […]
Ennealogic, 2012: Week 5
What combinations of words serve to soothe? How thick should these secretions be? Does it hurt when you touch it? I have so many questions and it’s getting harder for me to find a place to start. Should I start in the middle? I’ll work outwards. It will be as painless as possible. In other […]
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