Paul Lisicky, Author . Graywolf $15 (200p) ISBN 978-1-55597-369-8
At age 12, sitting on the bathroom floor of his family's home, Lisicky (Lawnboy) writes in his head a song he plans to send to The Partridge Family's producers, and dreams of becoming a famous builder like Bill Levitt: "I want those who...
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Paul Lisicky, Author Turtle Point Press $13.95 (388p) ISBN 978-1-885983-40-4
Lisicky's long, attentive, gay coming-of-age novel largely sticks to familiar paths. Seventeen-year-old narrator Evan mows the lawn of his older Miami neighbor, William; one day they begin a secret affair. At first, denying his nature, Evan tries to
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Paul Lisicky. Etruscan (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-981-96878-0
In Lisicky's third outing, a vigorous, interior-driven narrative plays out within the tense, anticlimactic relationship among three people sharing an inherited house set on an exotic coastal lagoon. Isidore Mirsky, unemployed at 32 after an accident
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Paul Lisicky. Four Way Books (UPNE, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (116p) ISBN 978-1-935536-25-3
Lisicky (Lawnboy) is important and well loved within the M.F.A. circuit, and these very short stories, perhaps to a fault, feel limited to that world of faculty readings where adoring students hang on improbable word choices. In one of the most...
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Paul Lisicky. Graywolf, $16 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-55597-728-3
In this fluid, tender memoir of love and loss, novelist Lisicky (Famous Builder) chronicles the two longest relationships of his life: his deep friendship with the writer Denise Gess and his 15-year romance with a renowned poet, here referred to...
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Paul Lisicky. Graywolf, $16 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-64445-016-1
A writer recalls his search for love and community in Provincetown, Mass., during the AIDS epidemic in this melodramatic memoir. Fiction writer and memoirist Lisicky (The Narrow Door) spent several years in the early 1990s in Provincetown, a Cape...
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Paul Lisicky. HarperOne, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-3280-37-3
Novelist Lisicky (Later) delivers a passionate if meandering memoir about Joni Mitchell’s influence on his life and art. When Lisicky sang “Both Sides Now” in his fourth grade New Jersey chorus, he was struck by the juxtaposition of the melancholy...
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