Sam Lipsyte is the New York Times-bestselling author of NO ONE LEFT TO COME LOOKING FOR YOU (2022), FRIEND OF THE POD (2022), HARK (2019), THE ASK (New York Times Notable Book for 2010), HOME LAND (New York Times Notable Book for 2005 and winner of the Believer Book Award) as well as THE SUBJECT and VENUS DRIVE. His books have been translated into several languages, including French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Dutch. A Guggenheim Fellow, his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Noon, n+1, Harper’s, Bookforum, The New York Times and Best American Short Stories.