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Hello everyone and welcome to the start of a new week! Here’s a book haul (part one 😂) of books I bought the last time I met up with bestie @keeperofpages Haunted Houses had me at the cover. This tells the story of three different girls’ transition to womanhood. “Tillman presents three very contemporary lives in uncanny, disturbing and sometimes shocking terms.” A Helping Hand also had a must-read synopsis. It follows a couple who look on themselves as Good Samaritans and enjoy helping lonely elderly ladies. “Beneath the suburban net-curtained world of genteel respectability however lurks the much darker and chilling terror of greed and exploitation - deadly currents that are masked by polite conversation and cups of tea.” Pleasantview looks to be a powerful read! Told in a mixture of English and Trinidad Creole, it reveals the dark side of the Caribbean dream. It’s a novel-in-stories about a society where “poverty and patriarchy savagely rule, and where love and revenge often go hand in hand.” Then there’s Waiting For Ted. By the time I got round to this haul, I’ve already read it! 😂 This book is really fantastic and one of my favourites of last year. Check out my review on the grid. Finally, The Bleeding which has the most gorgeous sprayed edges. I’m already a fan of the author so can’t wait to try “the first in a startling new series - a dark, horrifying, powerful historical thriller with an extraordinary mystery at its heart and three women pushed so far beyond breaking point, they face only one way out…” I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Have I tempted you? 😏 Have a great week everyone! 🤗😘 #bookstagramuk #scottishbookstagrammer #bookhauling #hauntedhouses #lynnetillman #ahelpinghand #celiadale #pleasantview #celestemohammed #waitingforted #mariekebigg #thebleeding #johanagustawsson #morebooksplease📚 #ineededthesebooks #neverstopbuyingbooks #insatiablebookworm https://www.instagram.com/p/CpLTSzHLc1q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Amy Sillman's 'Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings' is Back in Stock from @after.8.books !!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ This 272-page staff favorite essay collection is funny, insightful and honest—exactly what we want to read right now. "To writers, words are material, their matter, their only stuff," @tillman_glossitis writes in her Introduction. "Words have value in themselves, tricky beasts, relished, debated, hated. Amy Sillman values words. Her essays are literary incitements, they’re exciting, and felt. Sillman confers untested, non-consensual, verbal experiments on art, to visual ideas and compositions, to locate newer meanings. Let’s say, Sillman seeks to describe the indescribable, which is all the more strange because she is primarily responding to visual forms and matters, there, supposedly, in plain sight. But they aren’t, not without examination and engagement. That is, with a desire to apprehend more. In a Sillman essay, words have their own weight, which is inestimable…"⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #amysillman #fauxpas #amysillmanessays #lynnetillman #womenshistory #womenshistorymonth2021 https://www.instagram.com/p/CMNEpryJoT6/?igshid=rfy24ts9qlwo

Home with sick child. I snuck a picture of him while he’s sleeping. Yesterday I did spring cleaning and found a LOT of unpublished writing. I was getting my MFA in writing when he was 1 . I used to do puppet shows for him with The Ducky from Kentucky and The French Frog. I wrote about his stuffed animals. He and I were such a duo- for five years we spent part of almost everyday on the kitchen floor- did experiments with salt and baking powder and food coloring and water and borax and sugar cubes. I pushed him on the swings. We sang Waltzing Matilda. When he was six weeks old he got a fever of 104 and spent two weeks in the hospital. I sang him The Little Potato song and lots of Barry Manilow. Ken had just started at The New School. I just whisper sung “You re my little potato, we dug you up.” Babies as root vegetables. I didn’t really take to motherhood in a way that felt acceptable. I was so aware of what I had lost, was losing. His hair is blonde. My hair was blonde. He snores. He has a Clifford nose. I’m reading Men and Apparitions by Lynne Tillman. He is transforming from boy to man. Puberty, adolescence, liminal stages. “Man.” Human. Person. Loves and is loved. Helps and is helped. Can Mother be a kind of Trans? Can Post Treatment be a kind of Trans? #motherhood #fuckcancer #child #parenthood #feminist #lynnetillman #menandapparitions #flu #masculinity #trans

OPEN TODAY TIL 4PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: CRAIG OWENS: PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG CRITIC by LYN BLUMENTHAL & KATE HORSFIELD (2018) • In 1984, the art critic, theorist and gay activist Craig Owens (1950–90) gave a wide-ranging interview with Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield for their extraordinary video series On Art and Artists. At once personal, political and forward-thinking, Owens recounts his experiences with Rosalind Krauss and the founding of the journal October, the "Pictures Generation" artists and critics, and his evolving understanding of the art market, and how it impacts the thinking around art itself. • Along the way, he talks about his journey from a small town in Western Pennsylvania to the Off-Broadway theater world of New York in the '70s, and offers insights into his struggles grappling with the aesthetic and political contradictions haunting contemporary art then—as much as now. The interview, newly edited and updated, is published here for the first time and tells the intimate story of one of the most compelling minds in art theory and criticism. Novelist Lynne Tillman provides an introduction. • Available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #craigowens #katehorsfield #lynblumenthal #lynnetillman #badlandsunlimited (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

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OPEN TODAY 12-7 PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: THE COMPLETE MADAME REALISM AND OTHER STORIES by Lynne Tillman (Semiotext(e), 2017) The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories gathers together Lynne Tillman’s groundbreaking fiction/essays on culture and places, monuments, artworks, iconic TV shows, and received ideas, written in the third person to record the subtle, ironic, and wry observations of the playful but stern “Madame Realism.” Through her use of a fictional character, Tillman devised a new genre of writing that melded fiction and theory, sensation, and critical thought, disseminating her third-person art writer’s observations in such magazines as Art in America and in a variety of art exhibition catalogs and artist books. Two decades after the original publication of these texts, her approach to investigation through embodied thought has been wholly absorbed by a new generation of artists and writers. Provocative and wholly pleasurable, Tillman’s stories/essays dissect the mundane with alarming precision. As Lydia Davis wrote of her work, “Our assumptions shift. The every day becomes strange, paradox is embraced, and the unexpected is always around the corner.” This new collection also includes the complete stories of Tillman’s other persona, the quixotic author Paige Turner (whose investigation of the language of love overshoots any actual experience of it), and additional stories and essays that address figures such as the “Translation Artist” and Cindy Sherman. Available via our website and in the bookshop. #worldfoodbooks #lynnetillman #semiotexte (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

"What are values"? Public art fund exhibition 1987- Lynne Tillman #values #tbt #lynnetillman #whatarevalues #publicartfund #fuckyourvalues (at Mahattan New York City)

Lynne Tillman in Weird Fucks depicts some unchanged archetypes like men ghosting and of course the wyrd girl —but the 70's is a far gone culture and that drifter way of being is rare today. who today would plan to meet at the Rio Olympics - in one story they meet at the Munich Olympics - without a smartphone and gazillions of texts saying " where are you? I'm here" which it really means "I'm here online non stop checking my phone" are we really here? 🌞🖐🕯📞📲#bikinigirl #fastreads #goodreads #olympics #socialmedia #summer #lynnetillman #weird #fucks (at Wyrd Creations)