If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
Male
50 years old
New York City, New York
United States
Animals, music, plants, marshes, birds, storms, back bays, high tides, the ocean, the beach, the woods, novels, poems, Coney Island, decaying resorts, boardwalks, city planning, street names, maps, boats, music blogs, Joni Mitchell.
Music
Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Milton Nascimento, Bjork, Judee Sill, Grizzly Bear, Department of Eagles, Pattern is Movement, Final Fantasy, Fleet Foxes, Beirut, Nina Simone, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Shearwater, Kate Bush, Dusty Springfield, Joan as Police Woman, Rufus Wainwright, Miles Davis, Stravinsky, Poulenc, Fiona Apple, Wendy Waldman, Katell Keineg, Mia doi Todd, Rickie Lee Jones, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, John Legend, Sufjan Stevens, Nick Drake, Casey Dienel, Bekah Hayes, Regina Spektor, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Sia, Feist, Bat for Lashes, Elliott Smith, Andrew Bird, The Smiths, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Jaco Pastorius, Martin Sexton, Owen Duff, The Flaming Lips, The Shins, Tori Amos, Joanna Newsom, Faun Fables, Floetry, Kanye West, Mary J. Blige, Stevie Wonder, Burt Bacharach, Judee Sill, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Antony and the Johnsons, old school soul
Movies
Volver, The New World, Badlands, When the Levees Broke, Half Nelson, Grey Gardens, The Beales of Grey Gardens, Kansas City Trucking Company, Mildred Pierce, Me and You and Everyone You Know, You Can Count on Me, The Station Agent, Central Station, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Happy Endings, Happiness, In the Mood for Love, Being John Malkovich, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Raspberry Reich, Babette's Feast, Butterfield 8, A Woman Under the Influence, Three Women, Away from Her, Iris, Ma Vie en Rose, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Female Trouble, Desperate Living, Polyester, The Ice Storm, Sense and Sensibility, Brokeback Mountain, Tarnation, The Night of the Hunter, Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita, Eight and a Half, Juliet of the Spirits, Superstar, Dottie Gets Spanked, Safe, Far From Heaven, I'm Not There, Laurel Canyon, The Last Waltz, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Smiles of a Summer Night, Persona, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Mysterious Skin, The Living End, Paris is Burning, Hellboy, Henry Fool, The Devil's Backbone, The Thin Red Line, Jarhead, I Want to Live, A Streetcar Named Desire, Dolores Claiborne, Carrie, Edward Scissorhands, The Host, The Bride of Frankenstein, Margot at the Wedding, Monster, Gods and Monsters, Kinsey, Carnival of Souls, Sweeney Todd, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Encounters at the End of the World, Grizzly Man, Burn After Reading
Books
Mark Doty, Virginia Woolf, Joy Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Denis Johnson, Kathryn Davis, Jane Bowles, Flaubert, Marie Howe, Dorianne Laux, Lydia Davis, James Tate, Sigrid Nunez, Mary Gaitskill, Whitman, Blake, Elizabeth McCracken, Edward Carey, Ann Patchett, Richard Hughes, Matthew Zapruder, Amy Hempel, David Leavitt, Matthew Klam, Tim O'Brien, Sherwood Anderson, Heather McHugh, Denise Gess, Katrina Roberts, Bernard Cooper, Richard McCann, Clifford Chase, Mike Albo, Terrance Hayes, Victor LaValle, George Saunders, Mary Robison, Alexander Chee, Rebecca Brown, Scott Heim, Michael Lowenthal, Patrick Ryan, Louise Gluck, Linda Gregerson, Frank Bidart, Frank O'Hara, Li-Young Lee, Huub Oosterhuis, Jeffrey Eugenides, Joan Didion, Nick Flynn, Evan S. Connell, Dan Chaon, Susan Wheeler, Lucie Brock-Broido, Lucy Grealy, Victoria Redel, Linda Gregg, Donna Masini, Tracy K. Smith, Jill Ciment, David Shields, ZZ Packer, Adam Haslett, Chris Offutt, Richard Ford, Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, Lorrie Moore, Mona Simpson, Andrea Barrett, Anne Carson, Toi Derricotte, Cookie Mueller, Tama Janowitz, Robert Leleux, James Hall, Ann Beattie, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Bishop, Claudia Rankine, Jean Valentine, Brenda Hillman, Amy Gerstler, Alex Lemon, Tina Chang, Reetika Vazirani, Richard Powers, Jayne Anne Phillips, D.J. Waldie, Grace Paley, Gish Jen, Michelle Huneven, Christine Schutt, Christopher Davis, Susan Stinson, Rose Tremain, Kathleen Graber, Gregory Pardlo, Stephen Dunn, Alan Shapiro, Matthew Rohrer, Robert Hill, Lia Purpura, Brenda Shaughnessy, Major Jackson, Lynda Hull, Karen Brennan, Alice Fulton, Deborah Lott, Karen E. Bender, Robert Anthony Siegel, Sarah Messer, Rebecca Lee, Brad Land, Anne Waldman, Donald Barthelme, Jaimy Gordon, Eileen Myles, Gary Lutz, Yannick Murphy, Brighde Mullins, Damon Krukowski, Cynthia Macdonald, Pimone Triplett, Andrew Feld, Oni Buchanan, Tim Dlugos, Jennifer Egan, Bret Anthony Johnston, John Weir, Maria Flook, Helen Schulman, Jo Ann Beard, Wesley Gibson, Frank Conroy, Salvatore Scibona, Tao Lin, Daniel Mueller, Ander Monson, Alicia Erian, Junot Diaz, Steve Almond, Robert Olen Butler, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Yiyun Li, Terese Svoboda, David Hollander, Deb Olin Unferth
Paul Lisicky's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Here for:
Friends
Hometown:
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Body type:
6' 2"
Zodiac Sign:
Cancer
Education:
Post grad
Occupation:
Writer & Professor
Paul Lisicky's Schools
University Of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
Graduated: 1990
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Creative Writing
I write fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. I'm the author of LAWNBOY and FAMOUS BUILDER, both published by Graywolf Press. A new novel is forthcoming. And I'm currently working on UNBUILT PROJECTS, a collection of short prose pieces, some of which appear in Five Points, Gulf Coast, Subtropics, Hotel Amerika, The Seattle Review, elimae, The Literary Review, The Pinch, Verse Daily, Water~Stone Review, Arts & Letters, Knockout, Limp Wrist, and in the forthcoming anthologies FOOL FOR LOVE and MY DIVA. See more at paullisicky.com
For more information about Graywolf Press, see their MySpace page, which you can reach through my Top Friends.
I've taught in the graduate writing programs at Cornell University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Antioch University Los Angeles. I currently teach at NYU and in the low-residency MFA Program at Fairfield University.
A FEW QUOTES ABOUT MY WORK:
Bret Anthony Johnston, BOOK: "Lisicky's prose shines, at times hilarious, at others entrenched in sorrow and longing, but always gorgeous to read."
Michael Cunningham: "LAWNBOY is, quite simply, the real thing, a novel of mystery and great beauty. The appearance of a writer like Paul Lisicky, a writer who deeply respects the complexities of love and desire, who can find tragedy and transcendence wherever he looks, is a rare event."
PAPER: "[LAWNBOY is] a lushly emotional, romantic, and tragic pursuit."
Ann Patchett: "LAWNBOY is as dreamy and lush as the South Florida landscape it inhabits. It is funny, dead-on insightful, and very, very sexy."
FLAUNT: "Paul Lisicky has a bright narrative style....a voice to watch."
BOOKSENSE 76 NEWSLETTER: "[LAWNBOY] is to young gay men growing up in the 1980s and 1990s what Edmund White's A BOY'S OWN STORY was for gay men who grew up in the 1950s and 60s."
Andrea Barrett: "In the neighborhood [of FAMOUS BUILDER] you might also find Nabokov's SPEAK, MEMORY, Steven Millhauser's EDWIN MULLHOUSE, and some of Rick Moody's work. But the structure Lisicky has built for us is sturdy, and all his own."
Alexander Chee, PW DAILY: "[FAMOUS BUILDER is] one of the best memoirs in recent history. It reads like it's been rinsed in light."
OUT: "Stunning and revealing...[FAMOUS BUILDER] is a rare feat of imagination, forming an exquisite architecture of the self."
Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Jane Bowles, Walt Whitman, Frank O'Hara, Flannery O'Connor, Virginia Woolf, Mary Robison, Joan of Arc, St.
John of the Cross, Montgomery Clift, William J. Levitt, Joe Eichler, Eve Arden, Cookie Mueller, Karen Carpenter, Todd Haynes, James Baldwin, Herman Melville, Abraham Lincoln, Jimi Hendrix, Pedro Almodovar, Jean Cocteau, Charles and Rae Eames, Elizabeth Hardwick, David Foster Wallace, Gena Rowlands, Frances McDormand, Lauren Ambrose, Chloe Sevigny, Brandon Flowers, Wayne Coyne, Paul Rubens, Al Parker, Parker Posey, Heath Ledger, Barack Obama, NY Governor David Paterson, Owen Pallett
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Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2009! I hope you both have a great holiday and enjoy your time together. It's been so nice getting to know you both this year :)
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Thanks for the add. Hopefully I will get into the Fairfield MFA program and meet you in person someday. Best of luck on your work. Cheers and happy holidays.
Hey Handsome, LOVE the you tube "Yes We Can" link for Barack! THANK GOD HE WON AND SARAH PALIN WILL GO AWAY!!!!!! We can now have some hope of getting out of this mess Bush put us in.
