Mary Lyn Maiscott
My blogs
| Industry | Arts |
|---|---|
| Location | New York City, United States |
| Introduction | Mary Lyn Maiscott, who grew up in West Virginia and Missouri, is a writer, singer, and songwriter based in New York City. She’s written personal essays for The Village Voice and Cosmopolitan, music items for Vanity Fair and starpolish.com, movie reviews for the arts blog The Looseleaf Report, fiction for The Portland Review, and plays that have been staged at various New York theatres. She began writing alt-rock songs in her 20s and has appeared at such clubs as Folk City, the Bitter End, and CBGB’s. Her influences include Stevie Nicks, the Pretenders, Lucinda Williams, and Sheryl Crow. She has also worked as an editor, most notably on the John Lennon bio Nowhere Man, written by Robert Rosen, whom she married in 2001. |
| Favorite movies | The Crying Game, Annie Hall, Manhattan, A Walk on the Moon, Gas Food Lodging |
| Favorite books | The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Independence Day, Sabbath's Theater, The Poisonwood Bible, Rabbit Is Rich, Mrs. Dalloway |