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Lisa Montanarelli writes on culture, health, sex, and politics. Her most recent book, New York City Curiosities, is forthcoming from Globe Pequot Press in December 2010. Lisa has also cowritten three nonfiction books. In 2007, she and coauthor Cara Bruce revised and updated The First Year Hepatitis C: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed. Lisa has contributed features, profiles, and reviews to Colorado Review, California Literary Review, Agence France-Presse, Art and Antiques Magazine, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Erotica 2004, Best American Erotica 2005, and other anthologies. She received her B.A. from Yale and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from U.C. Berkeley. For more info, check out her LinkedIn profile.
Selected articles
Click here (or on the RSS feed) for Lisa’s blog posts columns for YoungMoney.com. Young Money sounds Republican, but Lisa is not.
“A Book of Shifting Borders” Review of The Lazarus Project by Aleksander Hemon for California Literary Review, February 11, 2009
“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
“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 Campaign Trail: Canvassing for Obama in Pennsylvania” Column on YoungMoney.com, November 4, 2008
“Get Out The Vote” Column on YoungMoney.com, October 24, 2008
“Green Tips to Fight Climate Change” Column on YoungMoney.com, October 8, 2008
“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
“Who really wrote ‘Odyssey,’ ‘Iliad’?” Review of Andrew Dalby’s Rediscovering Homer in San Francisco Chronicle, July 23, 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