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Lisa Mecham

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Lisa Mecham writes a little bit of everything and her work has appeared in Roxane Gay's anthology Not That Bad, Catapult and The Shallow Ends, among other publications. A Midwesterner at heart, Lisa lives in Los Angeles where she’s finishing a book about mental illness in the suburbs.
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Into the Margins: Talking with Siglio Press

  • Lisa Mecham
  • November 21, 2018
Founder and publisher Lisa Pearson discusses Siglio Press.
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up

  • Lisa Mecham
  • March 11, 2014
"You've got a problem, Mom. I mean, it's a good problem, but it's a problem," said my daughter when she walked into my office the other day and saw the stacks of books I brought back from AWP.
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up

  • Lisa Mecham
  • February 18, 2014
I once read a quote that to consider adultery in literature is to consider literature itself. These past few weeks, the complexities of romantic relationships kept popping up...
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up

  • Lisa Mecham
  • January 21, 2014
I have an obsession with post-apocalyptic literature. There's something oddly reassuring about reading far-fetched accounts of the future.
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up

  • Lisa Mecham
  • December 17, 2013
My dad loves to cook and he’s a bit of a mushroom fanatic so an online search for a unique holiday book led me here. And while I was there,…
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up

  • Lisa Mecham
  • December 3, 2013
You know it’s a small world when you devour a book and you Google the author because you want to profess your undying love for her words and you notice…
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up

  • Lisa Mecham
  • November 19, 2013
Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook rested on my parent’s bookshelf alongside The Second Sex, The Feminine Mystique and The Edible Woman. As a girl, I liked to peek at the…
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up

  • Lisa Mecham
  • November 5, 2013
I wouldn’t be much of a book columnist if I didn’t celebrate Alice Munro and her much deserved Nobel Prize for Literature. It surprises me, the number of people who…
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up

  • Lisa Mecham
  • October 22, 2013
In David’s Inferno: My Journey Through the Dark Woods of Depression, David Blistein retraces the diagnosis of his complicated depressive disorder and deftly captures the elusive nature of the illness:…
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up

  • Lisa Mecham
  • October 8, 2013
I recently discovered a fascinating cookbook: Rufus Estes’ Good Things To Eat. Written in 1911, this cookbook is the first ever written by an African-American chef. Born a slave, Estes…
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up

  • Lisa Mecham
  • September 24, 2013
Growing up, I learned to play the piano from a hunchbacked nun at a local, catholic university. After my lesson was over, after she scowled at my clumsy fingers and…
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