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The Fun Parts

Stories

by Sam Lipsyte

Length 6 hours 20 minutes

Language English

Narrators Sam Lipsyte, Peter Berkrot, Deanna Hurst & Michael Page

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A writer Time magazine has said “everybody should read,” Sam Lipsyte, author of the New York Times bestselling The Ask, offers up The Fun Parts, a book of bold, hilarious, and deeply felt fiction. A boy eats his way to self-discovery, while another must battle the reality-brandishing monster preying on his fantasy realm. In another story, an aerobics instructor, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, makes the most shocking leap imaginable to save her soul. These are just a few of the tales, some first published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Playboy, that unfold in Lipsyte’s richly imagined world.

Other stories feature a grizzled and possibly deranged male doula, a dooms-day hustler about to face the multi-universal truth of “the real-ass jumbo,” and a tawdry glimpse of the northern New Jersey high school shot-putting circuit, circa 1986. Combining both the tragicomic dazzle of his beloved novels and the compressed vitality of his classic debut collection, Venus Drive, The Fun Parts is Lipsyte at his best—an exploration of new voices and vistas in the form with which he began.

Fiction Short Stories

Sam Lipsyte is the New York Times bestselling author of Venus Drive, The Subject Steve, Home Land, and The Ask. He won the first annual Believer Book Award and was a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow. He teaches writing at the Columbia University School of the Arts.

Sam Lipsyte is the author of Venus Drive, The Subject Steve, Home Land, and The Ask, the latter two New York Times Notable Books. He won the first annual Believer Book Award and was a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow. He teaches writing at the Columbia University School of the Arts.

A veteran of stage and screen, Peter’s career spans four decades. Highlights include Caddyshack, Showtime’s Brotherhood and Director of Narration for the Emmy-nominated, The Truth About Cancer. His voice can be heard on television, radio, videogames, documentaries and industrials.

Deanna Hurst is an actress, voiceover artist and singer/songwriter. She has performed on stages throughout the United States, had several TV appearances, as well as having voiced hundreds of commercials for radio and TV. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two dogs.

Michael Page has recorded over 100 titles for Brilliance Audio. He is currently a Professor of Theatre at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and as an actor performs regularly with the Peterborough Players in New Hampshire.