Randie Lipkin

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Randie Lipkin (born 1953) is an American novelist. She lives in New York City, and is the author of two novels to date:

• Untitled (A Skier) [1995, Fugue State Press, New York]
  
• Without [1998, Fugue State Press, New York]
  

Untitled (A Skier), in part about the suicide of an Olympic skier's mother, is narrated in one long paragraph that slowly accretes narrative. One reviewer referred to this remarkable technique as "metaphysical pointillism."

Reviewing Without (a novel about absence and loss in a Japanese family), Donald Richie in The Japan Times found echoes of novels by Henry Green and Ivy Compton-Burnett.

Published excerpts of her more recent work (for instance in the journal Jacob's Ladder) indicate that her latest writing tends toward an unusually rigorous blending of fiction with philosophy.