Writer of LAWNBOY, FAMOUS BUILDER, THE BURNING HOUSE, and UNBUILT PROJECTS. I teach in the MFA Program at Rutgers-Camden and at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. My next book, THE NARROW DOOR, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2015. See more at http://paullisicky.net
Writer of LAWNBOY, FAMOUS BUILDER, THE BURNING HOUSE, and UNBUILT PROJECTS. I teach in the MFA Program at Rutgers-Camden and at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. My next book, THE NARROW DOOR, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2015. See more at http://paullisicky.net
Writer of LAWNBOY, FAMOUS BUILDER, THE BURNING HOUSE, and UNBUILT PROJECTS. I teach in the MFA Program at Rutgers-Camden and at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. My next book, THE NARROW DOOR, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2015. See more at http://paullisicky.net
Moon from the High Line last night.
“ Well, I have said this in the past, so I hope i don’t bore you by repeating it, but I think that we live or die under the tyranny of perfection. Socially, we are pushed towards being perfe...
The Naked and the Unnaked : > 1. This business of voice. How to speak of it? It is a little like > trying to write about blood. You’ve been taught that blood is of ...
Joy Williams reads “George and Susan” at the Tin House conference last week.
Taffy, the wonderful dog of our childhood, in her midcentury moment (c. 1977).
“In some ways, it’s the book I would have loved to have written when I was eighteen. I feel like in its sensibility the book goes back to a much more lyrical drive in me that a lot of us were...
The bunny and the patch of light. (At the base of the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown.)
Provincetown, 9:30 PM last night.
“ Virginia Woolf said, a hundred years ago, ‘You must kill the angel in the house.’ The angel in the house was that Victorian ideal of the long-suffering, mother-of-the-world character, an...
From the builder’s brochure of my family’s summerhouse (c. 1960). The house hasn’t fared well since Sandy, and it has to be torn down this fall, why might be why I’m posting these now, so...
Writer of LAWNBOY, FAMOUS BUILDER, THE BURNING HOUSE, and UNBUILT PROJECTS. I teach in the MFA Program at Rutgers-Camden and at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. My next book, THE NARROW DOOR, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2015. See more at http://paullisicky.net
Head of the Meadow Beach, North Truro, MA. Monday, June 2nd.
“Here’s what I mean by the miracle of language. When you’re falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader’s heart...
Sky outside at 9:13 PM tonight. Looking north from Fishburn Court, Provincetown, MA.
Humpbacks! At Stellwagen Bank off Provincetown this morning.
In the Provincelands yesterday, between the Beech Forest and Herring Cove, Provincetown, Massachusetts.
“And then here is what happens at the Bee Palace: shivering, even in my armor and the fingerless gloves, I have borrowed from the borrowed apartment, I take a few breaths and spiral into the op...