MEDIA

Interviews & Podcasts

Conversation with Rebecca Makkai
Politics and Prose Bookstore
Washington, D.C.
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KUCI Writers on Writing
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Author Lisa Gornick ’77 on the Writing Life
Princeton Alumni Weekly Podcast
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“The Stories of Their Lives”
Read Learn Live Podcast
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Podcast, Books and Authors with Cary Barbor
Episode 61
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Historical Drama from Lisa Gornick and Roxana Robinson
Marion Winik Reviews on The Weekly Reader, WYPR
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On The Peacock Feast, Paperback Publication
Reading With Robin
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The Peacock Feast by Lisa Gornick
Reading with Robin
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Print Interviews

“Writing ‘Women of a Certain Age.’ A Roundtable on Crafting Older Female Characters in Fiction.”
Lisa Gornick Hosts a Conversation with Julia Alvarez, Fiona Davis, Andrea Lee, and Elizabeth Strout
Lit Hub
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“Lisa Gornick and Alice Elliott Dark
on Altered States of Consciousness and Our (More than Five) Senses”
Lit Hub
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Q&A with Marshal Zeringue
Campaign for the American Reader
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Q&A on Ana Turns
Deborah Kalb Books
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“Rebecca Makkai and Lisa Gornick
Discuss Memory, Trauma, and
Roasted Peacocks”
Electric Literature
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Historical Fiction: The Pleasures and Perils of Writing About Other Eras”
Conversation with Christina Baker Kline
Poets & Writers
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“A Voice of Our Own: Debra Jo Immergut
in Conversation with Lisa Gornick”
The Millions
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“Emotion Congealed in Language: An Interview with Lisa Gornick”
Columbia Journal
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“An Interview with Lisa Gornick”
Slice Magazine
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“Lisa Gornick on Tinderbox”
Bustle
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“She’s a Writer. She’s Very Nosy”
Lilith
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“Young Love…and Its Aftermath”
Lilith Magazine
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“Structural Options: Angie Kim and Lisa Gornick
In Conversation”
FSG Work in Progress
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“Shrink-wrapped: Two psychoanalyzing protagonists”
Book Keeping: Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Sarah Crichton Books/FSG
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“Good Character: In Conversation with Mary Kay Zuravleff”
Book Keeping: Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Sarah Crichton Books/FSG
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Book Marks Questionnaire: “11 Rapid-Fire Book Recs”
Literary Hub
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“My Characters Are Difficult”
Zola
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Bacon on the Bookshelf
“Life in the Time of Corona: Notes from New York City”
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Read Her Like an Open Book
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CarolineLeavittville Blog
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Nothing is Cancelled Virtual Book Tour
CAROLINELEAVITTVILLE
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CAROLINELEAVITTVILLE
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Q&A on Louisa Meets Bear
Deborah Kalb Books
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Q&A on Tinderbox
Deborah Kalb Books
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Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb
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Quivering Pen
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Awards/Honors

Finalist, New Millennium Writing Awards 53 (“Till The Cows Come Home”), 2023

Finalist, Prime Number Magazine Award for Short Fiction (“Refugees”), 2021

Finalist, Fall Story Contest, Narrative Magazine (“The Arrangement”), 2020

Finalist, The Paterson Fiction Prize (Louisa Meets Bear), 2016

Long List, The Story Prize (Louisa Meets Bear), 2015

First Honorable Mention, Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize (“Eleanor”), 2011

13 Best Novels of the Year, Washington Independent Review of Books (Louisa Meets Bear), 2015

Winner, Summer Literary Seminars Unified Literary Contest (“The Barberini Princess”), 2009

Literary Guild Selection (A Private Sorcery), 2002

Edgar Awards Best First Novel Nominee (A Private Sorcery), 2002

Pages Magazine Promising Debut  (A Private Sorcery), 2002

Distinguished Story, Best American Short Stories (“Instructions to Participant”), 1999

Creative Writing Fellowship, New York University, Department of English, 1990-1992