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Sam Lipsyte and Diane Cook in Conversation

Diane Cook & Sam Lipsyte

‘The bewilderment was productive, and relit a good fire under my instinct, which I didn’t have to conflate with certainty.’

Diane Cook

Diane Cook is a critically acclaimed novelist and short story writer. Her debut collection, Man v Nature, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the L.A. Times Book Prize. She is a recipient of a 2016 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and her stories have appeared in Harper's, Tin House and Granta, and been anthologised in Best American Short Stories. A former producer for the radio show, This American Life, she lives in Brooklyn.

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Sam Lipsyte

Sam Lipsyte was born in 1968. He is the author of the short story collection Venus Drive and three novels: The Subject Steve, Home Land, and The Ask, which was a New York Times Notable Book. He teaches at Columbia University in New York. His short story collection, The Fun Parts, was published by Granta Books in 2013.

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