Tragedies of Good Intentions: An interview with novelist Lisa Gornick

Interview by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

In both Tinderbox (Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) and her first novel, A Private Sorcery (Algonquin, 2002), Lisa Gornick combines her expertise in two fields, psychoanalysis (she is on the faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research) and creative writing (M.A. from New York University.)  Her stories have appeared in Agni, The Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Slice, and other journal...