About Lisa
Last fall, Lisa collaborated with more than 60 other writers and researchers on Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America. OR Books publisher Colin Robinson invited Occupy Wall Street participants to write a blow-by-blow account of the encampment: anyone could contribute, the group made decisions collectively, and no one took credit for any specific part of the project. The result surprised everyone.
To hear more about this collaboration, join us at the Brecht Forum on April 18 and visit our Haymarket Books page.
Be sure to check out the reviews, too.
Socialist Review, February 2012
Nerve Magazine, January 30, 2012
The Guardian, January 25, 2012
Philosophy Football, January 24, 2012
The Telegraph, January 6, 2012
The New Yorker, January 2, 2012
Counterpunch, December 23, 2011
The Daily Beast, November 17, 2011
MSNBC – PowerWall, October 29, 2011
Galleycat, October 28, 2011
Good, October 27, 2011
Lit Reactor, October 27, 2011
Washington Post – Political Bookworm blog, October 27, 2011
The Millions, October 27, 2011
LIS News, October 26, 2011
Death and Taxes, October 26, 2011
Christian Science Monitor, October 26, 2011
Huffington Post, October 25, 2011
Village Voice, October 25, 2011
New York magazine, October 25, 2011
Before diving into OWS, Lisa penned New York City Curiosities, which caters to the craze for off-beat urban destinations (Globe Pequot Press 2011). She also co-authored The First Year Hepatitis C: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed (Revised Edition, DeCapo 2007), San Francisco: Tales of the City by the Bay and Chicago: Tales of the Windy City (both Globe Pequot 2005). Lisa has contributed features, profiles, and reviews to Agence France-Presse, San Francisco Chronicle, Art and Antiques Magazine, Publishers Weekly, California Literary Review, Colorado Review, and other publications. She also earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from U.C. Berkeley and survived a brief but passionate academic career, which you can read about on her LinkedIn profile.
Selected articles
“Cry of the West – Don’t fence me in” Review of Rebecca Solnit’s Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics, published in San Francisco Chronicle, June 24, 2007
“A Book of Shifting Borders” Review of The Lazarus Project by Aleksander Hemon for California Literary Review, February 11, 2009
“How Islam Shaped Europe” Review of David Levering Lewis’ God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 in San Francisco Chronicle, February 3, 2008
“Spinoza Stymies ‘God’s Attorney’” Review of Matthew Stewart’s The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World in San Francisco Chronicle, January 8, 2006
Review of Unending Nora, A Novel by Julie Shigekuni, in Colorado Review, Fall 2009 (Review is not online. Order print copy here.)
Review of Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex by Elizabeth Bernstein, on CarnalNation.com, October 3, 2009
“The Biographer: A Profile of Faulkner’s Preeminent Biographer” Profile in Drew Magazine, Spring 2008
“Art Pioneers in Sherry’s Gay Artists” Review of Michael S. Sherry’s Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy in San Francisco Chronicle, November 25, 2007
“Vollmann’s Fervent Tribute to Copernicus” Review of William T. Vollmann’s Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in San Francisco Chronicle, February 5, 2006
“Inside Every Religion” Review of Karen Armstrong’s The Great Transformation in San Francisco Chronicle, April 9, 2006
“Revolutionary Engines of Change: Charting Europe’s Shifts from Religious Uprisings to Red October”
Review of Martin Malia’s History’s Locomotives: Revolutions and the Making of the Modern World in San Francisco Chronicle, December 24, 2006