Reviews
“The Slip is a sweaty masterpiece,” Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“Portnoy’s undercard,” Gideon Leek, The Village Voice
“Paperweight champions,” Beejay Silcox, The Monthly
“The art of becoming,” Juan Fernando Villagómez, Lone Star Literary Life
The Slip reviewed in Kirkus (starred)
The Slip reviewed in Booklist (starred) by Bill Kelly
The Slip reviewed in BookBrowse by Letitia Asare
The Slip in Avocado Diaries
Watch
The Book Report w/Ron Charles, CBS Sunday Morning, 7/20/25
Listen
Book Public from Texas Public Radio
Check This Out from New Hampshire Public Radio
Kirkwood Public Library Podcast
“Debut novel THE SLIP takes readers back to Austin in the early 2000s to solve a mystery,” Texas Standard, 6/4/25
Behind the Stack with Brett Benner
News, Essays & Interviews
“I’m going to be the star of the show,” a conversation with Michael Colbert, 7/17/25
“Good Reads Q&A,” Eliza Pillsbury, The Alcalde, 6/26/25
“Lucas Schaefer on troubleshooting a problem character,” Lit Hub, 6/13/25
CrimeReads Interview with Jenny Staff Johnson, 6/6/25
“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