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The Mystery of Perception: A Conversation with Lynne Tillman

by Taylor Lewandowski

A conversation spanning Lynne Tillman’s many worlds

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A conversation spanning Lynne Tillman’s many worlds

Taylor Lewandowski’s book-length interview moves across Lynne Tillman’s life and work, connecting her Long Island childhood with the New York cultural scenes of the 1970s and ’80s. It also touches on her fiction, art criticism, and the ways her writing engages with perception, gender, photography, family, and American history. The format brings biographical material and cultural context together, offering an introduction to a body of work that ranges across literary and visual subjects.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers seeking an introduction to Lynne Tillman’s writing and career.
  • Those interested in interviews, American literary culture, or New York’s 1970s and ’80s cultural scenes.
  • Readers curious about intersections of literature, photography, gender, and cultural history.

Themes

Literary life and creative workPerception and genderPhotography and visual cultureFamily and American historyNew York cultural history

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Book overview

Candid and instantly engaging, this will be the go-to introduction to Lynne Tillman for readers everywhere and is a must have for any fan. A breakthrough for the legendary underground icon, who speaks about her life as a writer and her work in a stunning and candid conversation with writer and critic Taylor Lewandowski.

A book length interview with Lynne Tillman, beloved icon of underground American literature, that spans memoir, scrapbook, cultural criticism, and history in a lively, compact package. Critic Taylor Lewandowski strings together her many lives and worlds, from a Long Island childhood, to her colorful Downtown NYC life in the 1970's and 80's, to her psychoanalytical fiction, to her historicizing New York City with Stephen Shore's Factory photographs and Jeannette Watson's Books & Co., to her "Madame Realism" art criticism.

Lynne Tillman has devoted her life to using language as a tool to synthesize the chaos of our world into intricate, fragmented pieces about perception, gender, photography, family, American history, and much more, and this pocket-size primer is a fascinating narrative unto itself that will be the jumping off point to her vast oeuvre from now on.

Anyone with a passing interest in 20th century culture will find fascinating her run-ins with the likes of Simone de Beauvoir, M
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