Sam Lipsyte is the author of Venus Drive, The Subject Steve, and Home Land. He lives in New York and teaches at Columbia University.

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  October 2006: Waiting for the Bad Thing
  A week of anticipated depravity on a road trip through California with Michel Houellebecq.
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  September 2003: The Mooing of the Ruminant
  Bad-boy French writer Michel Houellebecq uncovers the simmering Western inertia beneath your lust for Thai prostitutes.