The Fun Parts Stories Author:Sam Lipsyte Returning to the form in which he began, Sam Lipsyte, author of the New York Times bestseller 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. Meanwhile, an aerobics instructor, the da... more »ughter of a Holocaust survivor, makes the most shocking leap imaginable to save her soul. These are just a few of the stories, some first published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Playboy, that unfold in Sam Lipsyte?s richly imagined world. Other tales feature a grizzled and possibly deranged male birth doula, a doomsday 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 tragi-comic dazzle of his beloved novels and the compressed vitality of his classic debut collection, The Fun Parts is Lipsyte at his best, an exploration of new voices and vistas from a writer TIME magazine said ?everyone should read.?« less