Sam Lipsyte is the author of the novels “The Ask,” “Home Land” and “The Subject Steve,” and a story collection, “Venus Drive.”

“Home Land” won the Believer Book Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2005.

“Lipsyte writes the way you wish you could talk,” said Esquire. ”He’s smart without pretense. He’s funny when the situation most calls for tears. … ‘Home Land’ is the kind of book that gets passed around, underlined, dog-eared.”

About “The Subject Steve,” Jeffrey Eugenides said that “Sam Lipsyte is a gifted stylist, precise, original, devious, and very funny. In a time when the language of most novels is dead on arrival, this book, about a dying man, is startlingly alive.”

Reviewing “Venus Drive” in Bomb, Ben Anastas wrote that: “Sam Lipsyte’s sentences burn with the reckless and gaudy flame of homemade pyrotechnics, arcing up and up beyond the backyards, carports, tract homes, ailing parents, and disenchanted children of boilerplate suburbia to the far horizon of the literary landscape.”

A 2008 Guggenheim fellow, his writing has appeared in Bookforum, N+1, McSweeney’s, Tin House, NOON, The Quarterly, Esquire, GQ and Playboy, among other publications.