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David Lipsky (born July 20, 1965) is an American author. His works have been New York Times bestsellers, New York Times Notable Books, Time and NPR Best Books of the Year, and have been included in The Best American Magazine Writing and The Best American Short Stories collections.

Lipsky received a National Magazine Award in 2009. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone.^[1] He currently lives in New York City.

Background and education

David Lipsky was born in New York City, and is the son of the painter Pat Lipsky.^[2] He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1983. He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University,^[3] studying with the writer John Hawkes. He received his M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with the novelist John Barth. Lipsky currently teaches creative writing at the M.F.A. program at New York University.

As an undergraduate, Lipsky published his story "Three Thousand Dollars" in The New Yorker;^[4] it was selected by Raymond Carver as one of the Best American Short Stories of 1986. Carver was surprised by the author's youth, noting in his introduction,

Career

Three Thousand Dollars and The Art Fair

As a graduate student, Lipsky wrote the stories that would become his first book, Three Thousand Dollars (1989). The novelist John Gregory Brown explained, "It was kind of apparent that Lipsky might have the brightest future of anyone [here]."^[6] The book was well received upon publication, with the trade publication Booklist summarizing, "Critics loved Lipsky's short story collection";^[7] the author was seen to possess "unlimited depth and range of vision,"^[8] and the stories were compared to the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.^[9] The Los Angeles Times, while noting the book's "astonishing insights into the New York art world," concluded, "Lipsky has given his contemporaries a general autobiography, one that will fit the majority with only minor adjustments."

His novel The Art Fair (1996), a bildungsroman composed of a number of autobiographical elements, tells the story of Richard and Joan Freely—a New York artist and her precocious son. The novel won rave reviews and was named a Time Best Book of the Year. The work earned Lipsky comparisons to writers Michael Chabon and Harold Brodkey.^[10] The New York Times called the novel "riveting,"^[11] The New Yorker described it "a darkly comic love story,"^[12] People noted, "Lipsky's portrayal of the art world is unblinking, his portrayal of the ties between parent and child deeply affecting";^[13] the critic Francine Prose called the book's "Darwinian" milieu a "testament to Lipsky's skill"^[14] and James Atlas wrote "the novel perfectly captures artists and dealers, the tiny gestures of cruelty that confirm or withhold status."^[2] The trade publication Library Journal summarized, "The praise has poured as thick as impasto."^[15]

Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself and Absolutely American

Lipsky's non-fiction book Absolutely American (2003) was written after the author spent four years living at West Point. The book's genesis was a piece Lipsky wrote for Rolling Stone—the longest article published in that magazine since Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. As Newsweek noted, composition of the book required "14,000 pages of interview transcripts, 60 notebooks and four pairs of boots";^[16] the magazine called the book "addictive," and Lev Grossman in Time wrote that it was "fascinating, funny, and tremendously well-written. Take a good look: this is the face America turns to most of the world, and until now it's one that most of us have never seen."^[17] In the New York Times Book Review, David Brooks called the book "wonderfully told," praising it as both "a superb description of modern military culture, and one of the most gripping accounts of university life I have read."^[1] The work was a New York Times best-seller and a Time magazine Best Book of the Year.^[18] Lipsky sold the motion picture and television rights to the story to Disney.^[19]

In April 2010, Lipsky published Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, about a five-day road trip with the writer David Foster Wallace. In Time Magazine, Lev Grossman wrote, "The transcript of their brilliant conversations reads like a two-man Tom Stoppard play or a four-handed duet scored for typewriter."^[20] The Atlantic Monthly called the work, "far-reaching, insightful, very funny, profound, surprising, and awfully human";^[21] at National Public Radio, Michael Schaub described the book as "a startlingly sad yet deeply funny postscript to the career of one of the most interesting American writers of all time."^[22] Newsweek noted, "For readers unfamiliar with the sometimes intimidating Wallace oeuvre, Lipsky has provided a conversational entry point into the writer's thought process. It's odd to think that a book about Wallace could serve both the newbies and the hard-cores, but here it is."^[23] Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, described the book as "rollicking" and "compellingly real,"^[24] the Wall Street Journal as "lovely,"^[25] and Laura Miller in Salon called it "exhilarating."^[26] The book was a New York Times best-seller and an NPR Best Book of the Year.^[27] A film adaptation of the book, The End of the Tour, was released in July 2015, with Academy Award-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg portraying Lipsky and Jason Segel portraying Wallace.

David Foster Wallace's estate released a statement about the film. “The David Foster Wallace Literary Trust, David’s family, and David’s longtime publisher Little, Brown and Company wish to make it clear that they have no connection with, and neither endorse nor support ‘The End of the Tour,'” the statement said. “This motion picture is loosely based on transcripts from an interview David consented to eighteen years ago for a magazine article about the publication of his novel, ‘Infinite Jest.’ That article was never published and David would never have agreed that those saved transcripts could later be repurposed as the basis of a movie.” ^[28]

Journalism

Lipsky's work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Details, This American Life, and All Things Considered. He received a GLAAD Media Award for journalism in 1999. In 2009, he received the National Magazine Award.^[29]

Awards and honors

Bibliography

Non-fiction

Novels

Short stories

Anthologies

References

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2. ^¹Atlas, James, "The Art Fair", Vogue, June 1996.
3. ^Gale Reference Team, "David Lipsky," Contemporary Authors (Biography), Chicago: Thompson Gale, 2006.
4. ^Klinghoffer, David, "Three Thousand Dollars," National Review, September 29, 1989.
5. ^Carver, Raymond, The Best American Short Stories of 1986, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. p. xv.
6. ^Duffy, Jim, "Absolutely Unexpected," Johns Hopkins Magazine, November 2003.
7. ^Seaman, Donna, "The Art Fair," Booklist, May 15, 1996.
8. ^Combrey, Richard, "Reading for a Cold Winter's Night," San Francisco Chronicle, December 31, 1989.
9. ^Kendall, Elaine. "Marking the Potholes, Pitfalls for Eighties Youth," Los Angeles Times, December 22, 1989.
10. ^Kirkus, "The Art Fair," Kirkus, April 1, 1996.
11. ^Eckhoff, Sally, "The Art Fair," The New York Times Book Review, June 9, 1996.
12. ^"The Art Fair," The New Yorker, June 24, 1996
13. ^Kaufman, Joanne, "The Art Fair," People, July 29, 1996
14. ^Prose, Francine, "In Art, Reputation Is Everything," Newsday, May 19, 1996
15. ^Library Journal, "The Art Fair," October 1, 1996.
16. ^Gegax, Trent, "Getting The Point," Newsweek," July 7, 2003.
17. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1005180,00.html?iid=chix-sphere |title=Long on the Long Gray Line |first=Lev |last=Grossman |publisher=Time |date=July 6, 2003 |accessdate=November 1, 2007}}
18. ^{{cite journal|last=Lacayo |first=Richard |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2001842_2002787_2001977,00.html |title=Richard Lacayo and Lev Grossman, "Absolutely American by David Lipsky" |publisher=Time |date=December 18, 2003 |accessdate=March 29, 2014}}{{Registration required|date=March 2014}}
19. ^Sauriol, Patrick, "ABC Goes West Point," Variety, August 13, 2003.
20. ^Grossman, Lev, "Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself," Time, April 16, 2010.
21. ^Kaiser, Menachem, "The Challenge of Writing About David Foster Wallace," The Atlantic, April 22, 2010.
22. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126483112 |title=A Not-So-Brief Interview With David Foster Wallace |first=Michael |last=Schaub |publisher=NPR |date=May 7, 2010 |accessdate=May 7, 2010}}
23. ^Wallis, Seth Colter, "My Dinners With David," Newsweek, April 22, 2010.
24. ^Publishers Weekly, "Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself," April 4, 2010.
25. ^Sam Sacks, "Irony and Its Discontent," The Wall Street Journal," August 29, 2012.
26. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2010/04/04/although_of_course_you_end_up_becoming_yourself |title=Road Trip With David Foster Wallace |first=Laura |last=Miller |publisher=Salon |date=April 4, 2010 |accessdate=May 7, 2010}}
27. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/series/131336530/best-books-of-2010 |title=NPR Best Books of 2010 |publisher=Npr.org |date= |accessdate=March 29, 2014}}
28. ^ McNary, Dave, Variety, April 22, 2014 [https://variety.com/2014/film/news/david-foster-wallace-estate-disavows-jason-segel-jesse-eisenberg-biopic-1201161423/]
29. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/arts/01magalist.html The New York Times, "The Winners," May 1, 2009.]
30. ^https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/dconaway/