“Something will turn up.”

What the author of The Idler’s Glossary accomplished in 2012.

Sam Lipsyte on success and failure.

“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”

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He wrote superman novels, and criticized humankind’s mediocrity.

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He wrote an inadvertent manifesto for idlers.

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