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Paul Lisicky

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My seventh book, SONG SO WILD AND BLUE: A LIFE WITH THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL, is out now from HarperOne. 🏳️‍🌈🦌🐊🦀

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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
With 80% of my Fine Arts Work Center students yesterday! 💙
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Another:
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Saw a Watch for Manatees sign. Walked fifty feet, looked down. My birthday present!
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I’m going to fix my face in this position for the next several days (though I will not be holding office hours).
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I’m coming back to Cape Cod. Again.
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
One more.
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This file might be too big for Bluesky but I’ll give it a try.
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
On Friday night, I read from SONG SO WILD & BLUE with brilliant @kendra_mckinley, who sang a range of Joni songs through Hejira. This was the fourth event where I’ve been paired with a musician, and I love how these collaborations lift and stir the air, two forms talking to each other in real time.
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Closer.
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Last night from the Lincoln Tunnel Helix. That’s sunlight doing that.
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Mount Greylock, which I first started thinking about years ago through a window in Melville’s house.
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Western MA friends—this is tonight! Doors 6PM. WANDER in the Berkshires. Can’t wait to read alongside Kendra McKinley, who will be singing Joni.
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
A few more pictures:
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I am back home after giving a reading at The Sea Ranch in CA, and I’m still thinking about these sheep nearby.
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
He’s back.
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Maybe it’s time to come back to Bluesky. (My blue visitor just now.)
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I got to talk with John Kelly about Joni, a joy! on.SoundCloud.com/PU5qUNuxhgqZ...
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Scars On The Soul
John Kelly and Paul Lisicky on storytelling, subversion, and a voice that still breaks our hearts—Joni Mitchell.
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
More here: birdcast.info
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BirdCast - Bird migration forecasts in real-time
When, where, and how far will birds migrate? How many birds passed last night? Our tools help you explore the answers to these and many other questions about bird migration.
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Look up look up 349 million birds in migration last night
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Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I wrote about my old friend Joshua Clover: elizabethmccracken.substack.com/p/so-blue-co...
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so blue-colored/it's almost blue
Joshua Clover, 1962-2025
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This!
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
SONG SO WILD AND BLUE in the @theglobeandmail.com today! 🌎
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I loved having this conversation with @garthgreenwell.bsky.social at @prairielights.com this week, and love that it has another life here: open.substack.com/pub/garthgre...
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“Art Is Pressurized By Endings”
Paul Lisicky on choosing your mentors, pushing against cynicism, & finitude in art
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Three days, Iowa City! Can’t wait to talk with Garth and see you! 💙💙
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
A new piece in The Writer’s Chronicle, a spinoff of SONG SO WILD AND BLUE. (On Joni, Jude, love, alligators, writing, Louisiana 🐊) writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/TWC/2025...
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Thank you, Barbara’s Bookstore O’Hare! 🛫
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Thanks so much, Vipassana! 💙
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
With @marthaannetoll.bsky.social at @politicsprose.bsky.social last night.
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Today marks a month since SONG SO WILD AND BLUE has been out in the world. Thanks to everyone who’s read the book, bought copies for friends and family, talked about it to friends and family, and posted reviews online. Sending clear, calm, and light. 💙💙💙
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Tonight, DC! @politicsprose.bsky.social Conn Ave, 7PM. We’d love to see you 💙💙
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
You’re right! 🌕
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
There’s a moon behind it.
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A total joy to read at Pete's Reading Series last night with Jinwoo Chong, Olivia Wolgang-Smith, and Edgar Gomez! Thanks so much to Brian Gresko and Temim Fruchter for being such welcoming co-hosts, to Greenlight Books, and to everyone who came out, knowing they'd be going home in heavy rain. 💙💙💙
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Brian Gresko @briangresko.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Day 60 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @paullisicky.bsky.social’s Art Begins with a No mailchi.mp/12a668378b7c... @writingco-lab.bsky.social
100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Paul Lisicky which reads “…my art begins with a no. A no to malice, a no to disrespect, a no to retribution. A no to monsters, especially those monsters that want to suck up all the power, trade in harm, and want the world to look, sound, and think like them.”
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Oh thank you so much, Lisa! XXOO
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Can’t wait to sit down with Martha soon! Monday, March 24.
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Thanks so much, Lisa!
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I do need to know this! What an image.
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is great, Stephanie! These are definitely not the conventional entry points but they’re all songs I love deeply and a way to think of her outside the codified story.
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Oh thank you so much, my fellow Cancer! 💙
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
My @largeheartedboy playlist for SSWAB: “Here are fifteen songs that feel like a conversation happening across boundaries: under-seen Joni, songwriters influenced by Joni, maybe even some who wish they could secretly take a vacation from Joni from time to time.” largeheartedboy.com/2025/02/27/p...
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Paul Lisicky’s music playlist for his book Song So Wild and Blue – Largehearted Boy
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Our joint SONG SO WILD AND BLUE event! 💙 Thank you to Tina Panik and everyone who came out to the Avon Free Public Library to talk about Joni’s songs this afternoon. Libraries, always! 📚💳📘👨‍🏫
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
So grateful to participate in the @queerloveproject.bsky.social Questionaire. 😊 💙 open.substack.com/pub/queerlov...
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The QLP Questionnaire: Paul Lisicky
"Life demands so much patience of us—it’s ridiculous. I don’t think there’s all that much to control it unless you force a relationship, and I think people do that all the time..."
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Connecticut! Today! 2PM! 💙 www.avonctlibrary.info/event/songso...
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Oh, thanks so much, Peter!!
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Thanks so much to Ricky Ian Gordon for being a sublime conversation partner and thanks to the Center for Fiction for making an inviting space for us. All the people who came out on a night on which the sky unleashed itself (see my xtratufs?) -- I'm so grateful to you. 💙☔️ 💨🪟 #joni #songsowikdandblue
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A passage about “Amelia” from Joni Mitchell’s HEJIRA. 🌌 ✈️ 🏜️
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
💙💙💙
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Tomorrow night, Providence! Can’t wait to talk with Matthew about Joni, my book of Joni, more. 🚀
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Thanks so much for this, Richard!!
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