5/20/2023 0 Comments A narrow door book review![]() ![]() But the movements back and forth in time settle into a dream logic. The result is a rare look into the friendships writers form with the people they may end up competing with for the same posts, publishers and prizes - and an even rarer look into the life of a significant writer who lived with and loved another significant writer for 15 years.Įach section is written in the present tense, marked with a year to establish chronology, and the chapters are filled with lyrically fragmented memories spanning three decades - one of the book’s topics is the clumsy and unpredictable ways we remember and are remembered by those we love. Paul Lisicky, in his new memoir, “The Narrow Door,” describes losing his old friend, the novelist Denise Gess, and his husband, the acclaimed poet and memoirist Mark Doty, within a year of each other: Gess to cancer, at the age of 57, and Doty to another man. Not as well as we do when we lose them, to death or loss of love, and can see at last even what we never wanted to see. How well do we know the ones we love? Not as well as we think. ![]()
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