ARCHWAY EDITIONS Book Launch: The Mystery of Perception by Lynne Tillman with Taylor Lewandowski
June 14 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Powerhouse Arena presents an ARCHWAY EDITIONS Book Launch: The Mystery of Perception by Lynne Tillman with Taylor Lewandowski. Enjoy music by Cowboy Heaven and readings from Grace Byron, Claire Donato, John Keene, Anika Jade Levy, Patrick McGraw, Whitney Mallett, K.O. Nnamdie, Ariana Reines, Krithika Varagur, and Linda Yablonsky.
The Mystery of Perception is a candid and instantly engaging introduction to Lynne Tillman, beloved icon of underground American literature. This legendary icon speaks about her life as a writer and her work in a stunning conversation with writer and critic Taylor Lewandowski. Lewandowski strings together Tillman’s many lives and worlds, from a Long Island childhood, to her colorful Downtown NYC life in the 1970’s and 80’s, to her psychoanalytical fiction, to her historicizing 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 synthesize 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.