PAWcast: Author Lisa Gornick ’77 on the Writing Life (May 2019)

On this month’s PAWcast, novelist Lisa Gornick ’77 discusses her new book, writing, and her former career as a psychotherapist in an interview with associate editor Carrie Compton. “As a therapist and then as a psychoanalyst, I was really trained to hear unconscious themes, to see the way that stories unfold, and to hear the way that emotion is concealed in language,” Gornick says. “And so, I felt very much as though I was using what I knew as a student of literature in the therapy room — and the reverse as well.” Her latest novel, The Peacock Feast (Sarah Crichton Books), was published in February.
Author photo © Sigrid Estrada; for a transcript of this interview, visit https://paw.princeton.edu/podcast/pawcast-author-lisa-gornick-77-writing-life-and-her-background-psychotherapist