A Nihilist's Guide to Parenthood: A Novel

With scabrous zeal and surpassing empathy, Sam Lipsyte returns to explore the anxieties and indignities of a culture in thrall to an artificially intelligent fever dream

Wyatt Sardo, washed-up veteran of the last high-flying days of the glossy magazines, has some things he needs to convey to his teenage children. From hiding.

Written in the form of a letter meant to give a full accounting of his violent acts with something called the Planning Committee, A Nihilist’s Guide to Parenthood is a ...