The Mystery of Perception

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 colourful Downtown NYC life in the 1970's and 80's, to her psychoanalytical fiction, to her historicising 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 synthesise 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 fascinati