SHORT FICTION
Pity
Post Road, April 2015
Priest Pond
Prairie Schooner, September 2013
Eleanor
The Thomas Wolfe Review, 2011
ESSAYS
Seeing the World Through My Mother’s Eyes
Next Avenue, October 19, 2023
Historical Fiction: The Pleasures and Perils of Writing About Other Eras
A Conversation with Christina Baker Kline
Poets & Writers, Sept/Oct 2019
Five Best: Lisa Gornick on Freud in Fiction
The Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2019
19 FSG Writers on the Women who Inspire Them
Work In Progress, March 29, 2019
A Quaker Woman Writes About War
Paris Review, February 19, 2019
Lisa Gornick’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Peacock Feast”
largehearted boy, February 5, 2019
Designing My Characters’ Homes Helps Me Write
Literary Hub, February 1, 2019
Book Culture Blog
July 2016
The End
Salon, March 12, 2016
Can Writing Make You a Better Person?
The Story Prize Blog, December 2, 2015
Unloved Neighbor
Real Simple Magazine, November 2015
Is My Book A Novel?
Work In Progress/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2015
An Analyst Teaches the Personal Essay
Glimmer Train Bulletin, June 2015
Why I Never Wrote About My Patients
The New York Times, May 2015
Bach’s Prayer
Slate, December 23, 2014
The Story Behind the Story: Five Elements
The American Psychoanalyst, September 2014
On Being Read To
Read Her Like an Open Book, July 2014
Privacy
The Huffington Post, April 4, 2014
The Writer-Traveler
Glimmer Train Bulletin, November 2013
A ‘Tinderbox’ Built on ‘Embers’
Book Keeping
Our Nannies
The Huffington Post, August 16, 2013
Things
The Sun, March 2013
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
Book Keeping
Googling Your Therapist
The Huffington Post, July 25, 2012
Can We Write About Our Kids? Further Reflections
May 20, 2010
Can We Write About Our Kids?
May 6, 2010
SELECTED PAPERS
“Women treating men: Interview data from female psychotherapists,”
Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 22:231-257, 1994
“Freud and The Creative Writer”
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 10:103‑127, 1987.
“Effects of Work‑Related Separations on Children and Families,” (with C. Piotrkowski),
J. Bloom‑Feshbach and S. Bloom‑Feshbach (Eds.), The Psychology of Separation and Loss. San Francisco: Jossey‑Bass Publishers, 1987.
“Developing a new narrative: The woman therapist and the male patient,”
Psychoanalytic Psychology, 3:299‑325, 1986.
“Novelizing and Analyzing,”
The Newsletter of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, Vol. 1:1, Winter 2003
“Novelizing and analyzing,”
The Algonkian, 16: Fall 2002