Paul Lisicky
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer, Teacher |
| Location | New York, NY, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | I'm the author of LAWNBOY, FAMOUS BUILDER, and THE BURNING HOUSE. UNBUILT PROJECTS, my most recent book, was the October 2012 selection of the Rumpus Poetry Book Club and is a finalist for the 2012 Lambda Literary Award. My work appears in CONJUNCTIONS, DENVER QUARTERLY, FENCE, THE IOWA REVIEW, PLOUGHSHARES, POST ROAD, THE RUMPUS, STORY QUARTERLY, TIN HOUSE, UNSTUCK, and elsewhere. I've taught in the writing programs at Cornell, New York University, Rutgers-Newark, Sarah Lawrence, The University of North Carolina Wilmington and elsewhere. I teach in the MFA program at Rutgers-Camden and in the low residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College. A new memoir, THE NARROW DOOR, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2015. For more see http://paullisicky.net |
| Interests | Dogs, Animals, Plants, Marshes, Birds, Storms, Back Bays, The Ocean, The Beach, The Woods, Novels, Poetry, Music, Decaying Resorts, City Planning, Street Names, Maps, Boats, Joy Williams, Joni Mitchell, Open Guitar Tunings |
| Favorite Movies | Volver, I'm Not There, The New World, Grey Gardens, The Beales of Grey Gardens, Three Women, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Station Agent, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Margot at the Wedding, Mildred Pierce, The Night of the Hunter, Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita, Juliet of the Spirits, Superstar, Dottie Gets Spanked, Safe, Far From Heaven, A Streetcar Named Desire, Monster, Sweeney Todd, The Bride of Frankenstein, Carnival of Souls, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Grizzly Man, Encounters at the End of the World, Burn After Reading |
| Favorite Music | Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Bjork, Milton Nascimento, Radiohead, Grizzly Bear, Department of Eagles, Dirty Projectors, Sonic Youth, Kate Bush, Essra Mohawk, Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Twin Shadow, Twin Sister, morning benders, Beirut, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield |
| Favorite Books | The Collected Stories of Flannery O'Connor, Stop-Time, Two Serious Ladies, Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Madame Bovary, A High Wind in Jamaica, Winesburg Ohio, Grace Paley: The Collected Stories, Autobiography of a Face, Fire to Fire, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Honored Guest, The Quick and the Dead, Veronica, Varieties of Disturbance, The Thin Place, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, (and it's not exactly possible to stop....) |