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The leading practitioner of the literary equivalent of a black comedy, whose new collection of stories is The Fun Parts, is out to defy the idea that funny can’t be serious. He picks his favorite humorous yet weighty novels.
Sam Lipsyte is the author of The Fun Parts: Stories, The Ask, Home Land, The Subject Steve, and Venus Drive: Stories. He teaches fiction at Columbia University.
The leading practitioner of the literary equivalent of a black comedy, whose new collection of stories is The Fun Parts, is out to defy the idea that funny can’t be serious. He picks his favorite humorous yet weighty novels.