The Fun Parts - Tapa blanda

"[Fuses] angst and slapstick in a way unseen since Nathanael West walked the earth. Lipsyte's like a darker, funnier George Saunders, but not without that same core of warmth or kindness." --Esquire

"Lipsyte is a brilliant wordsmith, and evidence of his skill is plentiful in this book, even more, arguably, than in his earlier works....Exquisite." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Lipsyte's sentences are exhilarating in the way only truly desperate things can be, a perfect soundtrack to our exhausted, entropic times." --The Boston Globe

"Lipsyte has cultivated a sensitivity to the ways that economic swings and social uncertainty make desperados of us all....Downright transformative. Modern scribes of satire: Meet your Bucky Schmidt." --Slate

"Sublime mayhem...Lipsyte expertly works the line between hilarity and pathos." --Ben Fountain, The New York Times Book Review

"Lipsyte can't be matched...A literary rock star." --The New York Times

"In this second story collection, fierce satire mingles with warmth and pathos as Lipsyte (The Ask) showcases his knack for stylistic variety and tangles with the thorny human experiences of moving beyond one's past or shedding one's personal baggage...Lipsyte's biting humor suffuses the collection, but it's his ability to control the relative darkness of each moment that makes the stories so engrossing." --Publishers' Weekly (starred review)