A long-time New Yorker, she lives in Manhattan with her family. in clinical psychology from Yale, and is on the faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Her stories and essays have appeared widely, including in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Real Simple, and The Wall Street Journal. Myra’s son, daughter-in-law and grandson move in with her temporarily. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Lisa Gornick is the author of Louisa Meets Bear, Tinderbox, and A Private Sorcery. Tinderbox: A Novel by Lisa Gornick Tinderbox book. Lisa Gornick is the author of Louisa Meets Bear, Tinderbox, and A Private. LG: Improvement, by Joan Silber, with its rogue gallery of characters-inept cigarette and antiquities smugglers, an Istanbul rug merchant, an eyebrow waxer-and each chapter both a stand-alone story and part of a larger intricately woven tale. Jon interviews author Lisa Gornick about her newest novel, The Peacock Feast. And, I’m listening to Toni Morrison’s narration of the audiobook of Beloved, her voice so powerful and seductive, it bores into your brain.īM: Book you wish would be adapted for a film/tv show? LG: I’m on a short story kick, and am reading/rereading Alice Munro’s Runaway, Deborah Eisenberg’s Your Duck is My Duck (that title!), William Trevor’s Cheating at Canasta, and Selected Stories Anton Chekhov. Imagine a 75-year-old general instructing his 91-year-old nursemaid to prepare his shrouded castle for the arrival after 40 years of his nemesis. LG: Renata Adler’s Speedboat, Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights, and Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus. LG: The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca, with the original Spanish on the left-hand page and the English, by 18 translators, on the right.īM: Classic book on your To Be Read pile? Lisa Gornick is the author of Louisa Meets Bear (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015, and upcoming with Picador, July 2016), Tinderbox. Straus and Giroux), and two novels: Tinderbox (Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar. Tinderbox Customer reviews Customer reviews 3.7 out of 5 76 global ratings by Top positive review All positive reviews Ruth Lynn Thought-provoking Reviewed in the United States on SeptemI thought that this book was a wow. Hello Select your address Kindle Store Hello, Sign in. LG: Ling Ma’s Severance and Anna Burns’s Milkman. Lisa Gornick is the author of the collection of short stories, Louisa Meets. Tinderbox: A Novel eBook : Gornick, Lisa: Amazon.in: Kindle Store. Bridge.īM: What book from the past year would you like to give a shout-out to? Coetzee’s Disgrace, Wallace Stegner’s Crossing to Safety, Pat Barker’s Regeneration, and Evan Connell’s Mrs. LG: These books didn’t spark sobs, but they choked me with emotion: J.
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