Listen/Read: Sam Lipsyte

Interesting interview on KCRW's Bookworm with Sam Lipsyte. He talks about his new book, The Ask.

Of course, after hearing this, I had to skip (well, skip as best you can in an car, which is not at all) to the library to pick up one of the few copies in the city that weren't already checked out.

So far, great stuff. Like it as much as I liked Home Land. Not that far into it, but there are some doozy sentences, like:

Interweb, webnet, interpipe - the joke had begun to grate. If they flubbed it and winked, what? I was tired of the semantic evasions, mine included. I was tired of many things. I had been keeping a list, got tired of the list.

and

My outburst was deemed a hate speech, which called for immediate dismissal. I could hardly argue with them. I think it probably was hate speech. I really fucking hated that girl.

Also, he mentions Barry Hannah. I like anytime Barry Hannah is mentioned.

Listen to the interview.

an angry latte

This is reference is really hilarious to me for some reason. The last sentence, I mean.

gawker: Speaking of blogs, for those of us who think the internet was invented in 2003, you were an early adopter, writing for Feed. What do you think about what's out there now as compared to back in the day?
Lipsyte: Things were just more wild back in the day. Drugs, orgies, harder code. Actually, I never learned anything about computers; I just worked on writing and editing good stories for the culture section. But I saw some of the best web designers of my generation walking the Soho streets at dawn looking for an angry latte.

It's from this here interview with Sam Lipsyte.