Walls and Bridges
Walls and Bridges is a 10-day series of performances and critical explorations uniting French and American thinkers and artists from social sciences, philosophy, literature and live arts.
Tillman Lynne
NOVELIST / SHORT WRITER / CRITIC
USA
Biography
Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and critic. Her fiction includes the novels Haunted Houses, Motion Sickness, Cast in Doubt, and No
Lease on Life, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in
fiction. Her most recent novel is American Genius, A Comedy. Her fourth collection of stories, Someday This Will Be Funny, appeared in 2011. Tillman has written three works of nonfiction, including The Velvet Years: Warhol's Factory 1965 - 1967, based on photographs by Stephen Shore. She has written stories, fictions, in response to contemporary artists such as Kiki Smith, Jeff Koons, Juan Munoz, Jessica Stockholder, Barbara Kruger, Roni Horn, and Vik Muniz. Her work appears regularly in artists' books and museum catalogues. She has written on art and literature for Artforum, Aperture, Bomb, The New York Times Book Review, and writes a column for Frieze magazine. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.
