This Is Not It — Lynne Tillman

In This Is Not It Lynne Tillman s collection of 20 years worth of important and compelling short stories and novellas the protagonists seduce you into their lives and thoughts Engaging funny elegant and ironic Tillman takes the reader to new heights of wit and meaning through staccato phrases grammatical twists and sensuous language Familiar worlds of honesty deceit dark humor pleasure pain confusion dependence love and lust each play decisive roles in her believable fictions In Come and Go three characters and an author collide In Pleasure Isn t a Pretty Picture the reader is treated to a he she meditation on the one night stand And Dead Sleep is truly an insomniac s worst nightmare A twin act on a double bill This Is Not It is a collection of innovative and stand alone writing that also engages and matches wits with the some of the best contemporary art work by Kiki Smith Jane Dickson Jessica Stockholder Diller Scofidio Laura Letinsky Peter Dreher Roni Horn Stephen Ellis Juan Munoz Vik Muniz Silvia Kolbowski Jeff Koons James Welling Aura Rosenberg Barbara Ess Barbara Kruger Dolores Marat Haim Steinbach Gary Schneider Marco Breuer Stephen Prina and Linder Sterling Since 1982 acclaimed novelist Tillman has created these unique narratives that are a parallel universe to the contemporary art world Maybe they re analogues or dialogues maybe fictions inspired by art maybe reflections or meditations but whatever they re called like Borges s fictions they are their own worlds too Tillman has marked out terrain of her own which this collection celebrates Full of life and art This Is Not It is illuminating bold subtle and riotous Tanıtım Bülteninden