A complex story that examines many moods and issues by Sam Lipsyte in current NYer

Sam Lipsyte's story, Show Recent Some Love (yes, the title, a quote from the story, eludes me, too) in the current New Yorker is at first easy to write off as a clever story w/ lots of topical references (set on the upper West Side, seemingly in the know about all sorts of cultural trends and drifts) with TV-clever dialog (the conversation between the protagonist and his elderly mother w/ mild dementia, is hysterical), but there's more to this story than surface glare. The story focuses on a middle-aged guy working in a communications shop in Manhattan; his mentor who was also, as he notes, briefly his stepfather, the one who years back apparently set him up w/ the job, has been ousted from his own company after years of exploitation, sexism, and boorish behavior; this makes the protagonist sure that his neck is on the block, even though he has long been repulsed by his mentor's behavior. So there's a mood of doom and uncertainty throughout, and Lipsyte makes us truly sympathize w/ this troubled man. We see him in a meeting w/ a potential client and in a frightening meeting w/ the HR director at the office and, toward the end, in a meet-up with his mentor who tries to push him into throwing some work his way, a sad, even pathetic scene - especially when the mentor cuts the protagonist's ego to shreds. Alongside these plot lines, we get glimpses of the mentor's difficult family life and, strangest of all, his several encounters w/ a homeless couple who have camped out on a patch of ground near the man's apartment: They are extremely hostile and threatening, adding a tone of darkness and menace to this already complex story. So the brightness of the clever dialog at the outset becomes just one strand, one note, in a story that examines, without didacticism, a wide range of moods and issues; not sure whether this piece is part of a forthcoming novel, but in any event it stands up well on its own.