Lucas Schaefer’s debut novel, THE SLIP, is now available from Simon & Schuster. You can order THE SLIP here!
The Slip is the winner of the 2025 Kirkus Prize for fiction, one of the Washington Post’s 10 Best Books of 2025, and one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2025. It is a national bestseller.
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Lucas’s work has appeared in One Story, The Baffler, and other publications. You can read his most recent piece, “In the Ring with Frederick Wiseman,” at The Paris Review. Lucas lives with his family in Austin.