Robert
Wilensky wrote a book on Common
LISPcraft, which he uses
for his version of the local AI course. You may be particularly
interested in the magical top-down parsers listed at the end of
the code section of this page.
Paul Graham has a page
of Lisp links
(including pointers to books, articles, resources, people, etc).
See also the more general Lisp section, which
includes some essays and history.