Lisa Gornick’s The Peacock Feast is out now in paperback from Picador. 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. Lisa Gornick is the author of Louisa Meets Bear, Tinderbox, and A Private Sorcery. 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. 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? Her stories and essays have appeared widely, including in AGNI, Prairie Schooner, and. 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. Lisa Gornick is the author of the novels Tinderbox and A Private Sorcery. So palpable, lifelike, and worthy of your love are these New Yorkers that after finishing the book, you'll probably.

Caitie Hannigan, Slice Magazine Read Lisa Gornick's Tinderbox, and you may adopt her family of characters as your imaginary friends. 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. Without a doubt, Tinderbox is corporeal, and a beating product of Gornick's experiences. LG: Renata Adler’s Speedboat, Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights, and Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus. Louisa is the sexually adventurous daughter of a geneticist, Bear the volatile son of a plumber. Tinderbox spins a suspenseful mystery of hidden traumas. In the rich tradition of Lionel Shriver, Jane Hamilton, and Anne Tyler, the psychoanalyst and novelist Lisa Gornick tells us a story about the tragedy of good intentions. 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? When Louisa and Bear meet at Princeton in 1975, sparks fly. As events spiral out of Myra's control, she learns that even a family as close-knit as her own can have plenty to hide. LG: Ling Ma’s Severance and Anna Burns’s Milkman.

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. this world that is familiar to us as in Caroline Leavitts Is This Tomorrow (Algonquin, 2013) and Lisa Gornicks Tinderbox (Sarah Crichton Books, 2013.). FSG/Sarah Crichton, 26 (320p) ISBN 978-6-4 This well-crafted novel from Gornick (A Private Sorcery) tells the story of a family knocked off-balance with. LG: These books didn’t spark sobs, but they choked me with emotion: J.

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