958. Paul Lisicky

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 556 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Paul Lisicky is the author of the memoir Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell, available from HarperOne. Lisicky is the author of seven books, including Later: My Life at the Edge of the World, The Narrow Door, Unbuilt Projects, The Burning House, Famous Builder, and Lawnboy. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Conjunctions, The Cut, Fence,the New York Times, Ploughshares, and in many other publications. His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Rose Dorothea Award from the Provincetown Library. He has taught in the creative writing programs at Antioch University Los Angeles, Cornell University, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere. He is currently a Professor of English in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers University–Camden, where he is Editor of StoryQuarterly. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, everybody, welcome to the program.
0:08.2	This is the Other People podcast.
0:09.9	I'm Brad Listy, and I'm in Los Angeles.
0:12.0	How's it going?
0:13.1	Thank you for being here.
0:14.4	I appreciate it.
0:15.7	Hope you're doing okay, wherever you are.
0:18.8	And don't forget to hit the subscribe button wherever you listen. Be sure to
0:23.4	subscribe to this show. And you can follow me on social media. I'm on Blue Sky and Instagram.
0:30.4	That would be nice. I have a great episode for you today. My guest is Paul Lysicki. He has a new
0:36.2	memoir out called Song So Wild and Blue, A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell.
0:42.2	It is available from Harper One, and it is at once a vivid and affecting personal narrative
0:49.0	and a meditation on Joni Mitchell and her music, and how that music has helped to shape Paul Lysicki as both a human being and a writer.
1:00.1	It's a beautiful book.
1:02.2	One artist paying homage to another artist, and it was great to meet Paul Lysicki.
1:08.2	I've been meaning to have him on this show for a while, and I'm glad that it finally happened. My conversation with Paul Lysicki. I've been meaning to have him on this show for a while and I'm glad that it
1:12.1	finally happened. My conversation with Paul Lysicki is coming up in just a couple of minutes.
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