# Sam Lipsyte

sam lipsyte (born 1968) is an American novelist and short story writer. == Life == The son of the sports journalist Robert Lipsyte, sam lipsyte was born in New York City and raised in Closter, New Jersey. He lives in Manhattan and teaches fiction at Columbia University.Lipsyte was an editor at the webzine FEED. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Quarterly, The New Yorker, Harper's, Noon, Tin House, Open City, N+1, Slate, McSweeney's, Esquire, GQ, Bookforum, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Nouvelle Revue Française, The Paris Review, This Land, and Playboy, among other places.