Series organized by Ben Marcus, Writing
Lynne Tillman writes novels, short stories, and essays. Her novels include Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life, Finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, American Genius, A Comedy, and, recently, Men and Apparitions.
Her fiction collections are: Absence Makes the Heart; The Madame Realism Complex; This Is Not It; Someday This Will Be Funny, and The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories.
Tillman’s books of nonfiction and essays include: The Broad Picture; The Velvet Years: Warhol's Factory 1965-67, with Stephen Shore’s Factory photographs, Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co., and Tillman’s second book of essays, What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.
Tillman writes regularly about art for artists’ books and museum catalogues. She writes a bi-monthly column, “In These Intemperate Times,” for frieze art magazine. Tillman received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation grant for arts writing in 2014. She has been a Rea Visiting Writer (UVA); A Kestnbaum Fellow (UChicago), and Hurst Visiting Writer (U. Washington at St. Louis). She is a Professor/Writer in residence at The University at Albany (SUNY), and also teaches in SVA’s MFA program in Arts Writing.
This event is free and open to the public. No RSVP is required; it is first come, first served. Also, please note that doors will open to Columbia Writing students at 6:30pm, and will then open to the general public at 6:45pm, so we do encourage guests to arrive early in order to ensure seating.
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