Andrew Lipstein

2025: a year in reading. Important themes: time, complexity, things changing, curiosity. My new year’s goal was to read fewer books than last year (274) and I succeeded (222), and again I hope to read even less next year.

Copenhagen summer 25

Now in print! Pick up the Summer issue of @gq to read all about a supposedly fun thing I would definitely do again. Thank you to @kstoeffel for guiding the piece and @cahlinetompkins for her stunning & beaut photography.

Andrew Lipstein lives a double life. In one, he’s a novelist whose books often reflect on contracts of power and the ways people fall prey to their own insecurities. In another, he’s a tech guy. That’s not to say that the two don’t inform each other: Lipstein’s second book, 'The Vegan,' follows a partner at a hedge fund seeking moral salvation. His latest, 'Something Rotten,' touches on similar themes, this time tracking a journalist couple as they escape to Denmark, eager to leave their fraught New York life behind. Lipstein’s wife, Mette, is Danish, so he’s familiar with the culture — as are his three toddlers. Liver pate, a Scandinavian staple, has become a fairly regular part of their diet. “It smells identical to their diapers, which is a very confusing thing for me,” he says. “I begged my wife to stop feeding it to them, but I understand it’s very healthy.” Read his pate-fueled #GrubStreetDiet at the link in our bio. Illustration: @ryan_inzana

I read 274 books this year. I learned: humans err. Also: many ways to see different things.

Da books are in. I sniffed them good. I dedicate the whole book to wife and wrote her something sweet in the back if you want to find out what I write buy your own stupid copy.

New author photograph 📸 by Peter Senzamici: @psenza 🌹by Mother Earth Something Rotten is out January 21 from @fsgbooks

Cover reveal! In his crackling new novel, @ailipstein makes you question everyone, everything, and—above all—the very nature of truth. SOMETHING ROTTEN by @ailipstein is coming to bookstores January 21, 2025. Preorder this twisting, thrilling tale of loyalty and deceit now! Jacket design by @na_son . About the book: Cecilie is a fed-up New York Times reporter. Her husband, Reuben, is a disgraced former NPR host and grudging stay-at-home dad. Neither can wait to flee New York and spend the summer in Copenhagen, Denmark, Cecilie’s hometown. But their vacation begins to turn inside out as soon as they land: Cecilie’s first love, Jonas, has been diagnosed with a rare, fatal illness. All her friends are desperate to get him help—except for Mikkel, a high-powered journalist who happens to be the only one Jonas will listen to. Mikkel’s influence quickly extends to Reuben, who’s not only intoxicated by Mikkel’s charm but discovers in him a new model of masculinity—one he found hopelessly absent in America. As Mikkel indoctrinates Reuben with ever more depraved stunts, Reuben senses something is seriously amiss. Cecilie, too, begins to question who to trust—even herself. Drawn in by the gravity of the past, she can’t help but stray onto the road not taken.

Pick up the June issue of Harper’s to read my cover story on what could be the weirdest, wildest part of the market: index funds. I spoke to fund managers, economists, and a dog psychologist to figure out what the hell is going on and what lies ahead. I also inexplicably, boneheadedly committed the one snafu that haunts every journalist (third image). harpers.org/archive/2024/06/what-goes-up-andrew-lipstein-401k-doomsday-index-fund-catastrophe

Facebook cleanse done. Found this story I wrote when I was 10

Bit of a BOGO sitch at the Lützhøft Lipstein household. Welcome to the world, Isaac and Meyer.

Da year in revoo. Some surprises cummin’ 2024