A Reading and Q&A with Lynne Tillman

About this event

Lynne Tillman’s novels are Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction; American Genius, A Comedy; and Men and Apparitions, nominated for the Republic of Consciousness Prize (UK, 2021). Her nonfiction includes The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965-67, photographs by Stephen Shore; What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism; and Mothercare, a book-length essay on caregiving for her mother. Her essays and stories are published in Frieze, Bomb, Bookforum, Aperture, Artforum, N+1, Worms, and Tank; in artist monographs such as those of Dana Schutz, Steve Locke, Stanley Whitney, Amy Sillman, Robert Gober, Barbara Kruger, and Raymond Pettibon; and in gallery and museum catalogues from The Whitney Museum of American Art, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, ICP Boston, The New Museum, Hammer Museum, and MOCA.

Tillman has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Contributions to Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her most recent book, Paying Attention, a collection of essays on art and culture, was published by David Zwirner Books in spring 2026.