About Lisa
Last month, Lisa collaborated with more than 40 co-authors on Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America – available now from OR Books. All proceeds from the book will go to Occupy Wall Street.
Her other recent book, New York City Curiosities, caters to the craze for off-beat urban destinations and was published by Globe Pequot Press in 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. Her funny fiction about weird sex has appeared in Best American Erotica 2004 and Best American Erotica 2005. Lisa 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