Sam Lipsyte's Reading List

""Consolation," by Deborah Shapiro"

""Golden Age," by Wang Xiaobo, translated by Yan Yan"

""Animal Joy," by Nuar Alsadir"

""Swann's Way," by Marcel Proust, translated by Lydia Davis"

""The Face of Battle," by John Keegan."

""The Complete Gary Lutz.""

"bless you, Joe Wenderoth, for writing "Letters to Wendy's," itself a classic"

"The "U.S.A." trilogy, by John Dos Passos, is still saying some very urgent things in often startling ways."

""Inner Tube," a novel by Hob Broun, was first published in 1985. "Inner Tube" is a sharp, strange, moving book about memory, suicide, Cold War America, and the deep effects of modern media and culture on the psyche."

""The Adulterants," by Joe Dunthorne."