Romancing 'The Monk'
I was the woman who ended his celibacy. But could I give him the peace he once had?
By Lisa A. Phillips
The Boston Globe
October 14, 2007
Soon after I started working with him at a small-town radio station,
The Monk cooked me dinner. He wasn't actually a monk anymore,
but I was intrigued that he had been one, in Ananda Marga, an
India-based spiritual organization I'd never heard of before. I was
a lapsed Jew, practically an atheist, and I found this rather exotic.
I was drawn to his air of calm authority, unusual for his 31 years,
and the simple way he lived.
MODERN LOVE
I Couldn’t Let Go of Him. Did It Make Me a
Stalker?
By LISA A. PHILLIPS
The New York Times
Published: December 3, 2006
WE were standing in the aisle of a crowded predawn bus, deep
in conversation, oblivious to those around us. He was telling
me about a new staging of “A Streetcar Named Desire” that
was all the rage in the field of queer theory. Stanley was played
by a woman, Blanche by a man. “I saw it at a conference last
semester,” he said. “It was great.”


