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Lynne Tillman

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Here’s an Author’s Bio. It could be written differently. I’ve written many for myself and read lots of other people’s. None is right or sufficient, each slants one way or the other. So, a kind of fiction – selection of events and facts.. So let me just say: I wanted to be a writer since I was eight years old. That I actually do write stories and novels and essays, and that they get published, still astonishes me.

My news is that my 6th novel MEN AND APPARITIONS will appear in march 2018 from Soft Skull Press. It's my first novel in 12 years.

Each spring, I teach writing at University at Albany, in the English Dept., and in the fall, at The New School, in the Writing Dept.

I’ve lived with David Hofstra, a bass player, for many years. It makes a lot of sense to me that I live with a bass player, since time and rhythm are extremely important to my writing. He’s also a wonderful man.

As time goes by, my thoughts about writing change, how to write THIS, or why I do. There are no stable answers to a process that changes, and a life that does too. Writing, when I’m inhabiting its world, makes me happy, or less unhappy. I also feel engaged in and caught up in politics here, and in worlds farther away.

When I work inside the world in which I do make choices, I'm completely absorbed in what happens, in what can emerge. Writing is a beautiful, difficult relationship with what you know and don’t know, have or haven’t experienced, with grammar and syntax, with words, primarily, with ideas, and with everything else that’s been written.

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Lynne Tillman

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Books from Lynne Tillman

Uncommon Places: The Complete Works

Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader

Gigantic Worlds

Electric Literature No. 5

The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories

Water from a Bucket: A Diary 1948-1957

Amy Sillman: Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings

The Time Out Book Of New York Short Stories

Put About: A Critical Anthology On Independent Publishing

Philip-Lorca Dicorcia

فراموش نکن که خواهی‌مرد

Say Bye to Reason and Hi to Everything

Craig Owens: Portrait of a Young Critic

New Essays on The House of Mirth

Crashing Cathedrals: Edmund White by the Book

Stephen Andrews & Gregg Bordowitz in conversation

While We Were Sleeping: NYU and the Destruction of New York

Haunted Houses

9 Stories on the Magic of Cities

PEN America 11: Make Believe