Lynne Tillman: Caring for a Mother You Don't Love
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Lynne Tillman discusses her recent book Mothercare. In one of the few examples of Lynne writing about her own life, Mothercare documents the period when her mother develops and then sadly passes from a rare health condition. Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, cultural critic and author of various books including Haunted Houses, Weird F***s, American Genius and Men and Apparitions. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an Andy Warhol Creative Capital Arts Writing Fellowship. Tillman is Professor and Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at The University of Albany and teaches at the School of Visual Arts’ Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program in New York. EVENT LINK: https://bit.ly/3ZPFu7H SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington www.redmedicine.xyz
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