Gary Lippman


Gary Lippman is an American author, journalist, attorney, and film producer. Lippman's journalistic work has been published in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Vice, Los Angeles Review of Books, LitHub and more. He is the author of two novels, Set the Controls for the Heart of Sharon Tate and I Wish, Therefore I Am, along with a collection of microfiction titled We Loved The World But Could Not Stay, all published by Rare Bird Books. In 2012, he co-produced the film Vinyl.

Early life and education

Lippman received his B.A. in English literature from Rutgers University in 1986, his J.D. from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 1990 and has worked with New York's Innocence Project.

Writing career

Lippman's journalistic writing includes social commentary, book reviews, interviews, and profiles of prominent cultural figures such as Daniel Menaker, John Perry Barlow and Lou Reed. His friendships with authors Harry Eugene Crews and Tom Robbins have also been celebrated in his pieces.
Lippman's play Paradox Lust ran in an off-Broadway theatre in 2001. His novel Set the Controls for the Heart of Sharon Tate won praise from The Sopranos actor Michael Imperioli, and writers Jillian Lauren, Lydia Lunch, and Laura Albert. His We Loved The World But Could Not Stay and I Wish, Therefore I Am have been celebrated by literary figures such as Tom Robbins, Patricia Marx, Joan Juliet Buck, actors Lorraine Bracco and Matthew Rhys, and musicians such as Eugene Hutz and Simon Kirke.

Writings

Journalism

Feature Profiles

Fiction