Here is an American mind contemplating contemporary society and culture with wit, imagination, and a brave intelligence. Tillman upends expectations, shifts tone, introduces characters, breaches limits of genre and category, reconfiguring the world with the turn of a sentence. Like other unique thinkers, Tillman sees the world differently--she is not a malcontent, but she is discontented. Her responses to art and literature, to social and political questions change the reader's mind, startling it with new angles. Which is why so many of us who know her work often wonder: what would Lynne Tillman do? A long-time resident of New York, Tillman's sharp humor is like her city's, tough and hilarious. There are distinct streams of concern coursing through the seeming eclecticism of topics--Hillary Clinton, Jane Bowles, O.J. Simpson, art and artists, Harry Mathews, the state of fiction, film, the state of her mind, the State of the Nation. There is a great variety, but what remains consistent is how differently she writes about them, how well she understands, how passionate and bold her writing is.

What does Lynne Tillman do? Everything. Anything. You name it. She has a conversation with you, and you're a better, smarter person for it.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Red Lemonade
Published: 04/08/2014
ISBN: 9781935869214
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.90w x 1.00d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2014
Publishers Weekly 01/27/2014
Booklist 03/15/2014 pg. 44
Library Journal 05/01/2014 pg. 78
New Yorker (The) 06/02/2014 pg. 79