No One Left to Come Looking for You

By Sam Lipsyte,

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A darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 1990s New York City.

Manhattan’s East Village, 1993. Dive bars, DIY music venues, shady weirdos, and hard drugs are plentiful. Crime is high but rent is low, luring hopeful, creative…

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1 author picked No One Left to Come Looking for You as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Sam Lipsyte is one of the greatest sentence writers to grace our dying literary republic. I’ve loved all of his books, but this short novel has a moshing, escalating murder-mystery plot (kicked off by the theft of a bass guitar) that is unlike anything else he’s written.

It’s set in the early 90s on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and this urban landscape is so immersive that I felt shocked, after putting the book down, that it was actually 2023 and that I was living in upstate New York.

It’s a page-turner driven by a deeply funny, self-deprecating narrator (Jack Shit)…

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