Lynne Tillman is a writer. This summer, Peninsula will publish her novella Weird Fucks. Her book-length autobiographical essay, Mothercare, will be published by Soft Skull Press in 2022.
Why theatre remains vital
The glorification of the pontiffs of Palo Alto
Creating and contesting categories
The importance of being curious
Is too much information ever enough?
In defence of irony
The myth of the ‘Great American Novel’
The politics of pants
Words and nations
On disasters and motivation
An excerpt from Men and Apparitions, a novel in progress
How taste and preferences change
Boredom and death: two sides of the same coin?
How do artists respond to current events?
What constitutes political art?
How our attitudes betray us
The ups and downs of failure as a creative tool
A new book on the writing of Diane Arbus prompts a deeper understanding of her photographs
The problems of acting natural
