Reviews
“The Slip is a sweaty masterpiece,” Ron Charles, The Washington Post
The Slip reviewed in Kirkus (starred)
The Slip reviewed in Booklist (starred)
The Slip in Avocado Diaries
News
“Bob, weave and levitate: a conversation with Lucas Schaefer,” Greg Marshall, Southwest Review, 6/4/25
“How a small Texas boxing gym inspired one of the summer’s most anticipated novels,” Dina Gachman, Texas Monthly, 6/3/25
“Ten questions for Lucas Schaefer,” Poets & Writers, 6/3/25
The Slip an anticipated book of the summer in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Lit Hub and on NPR.org
“With debut novel The Slip, Lucas Schaefer pens an Austin epic,” Mattea Gallaway, Austin Chronicle, 5/6/2025
“In those quiet moments,” an interview with J.L. Zhang for One Story, April 2025
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“Debut novel THE SLIP takes readers back to Austin in the early 2000s to solve a mystery,” Texas Standard, 6/4/25