784. Lynne Tillman

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Lynne Tillman is the author of Mothercare: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence, available from Soft Skull. Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. Her novels are Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; American Genius, A Comedy, and Men and Apparitions. Her nonfiction books include The Velvet Years: Warhol's Factory 1965-1967, with photographs by Stephen Shore; Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co.; and What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Tillman is Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at The University of Albany, and lives in New York with bass player David Hofstra. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram YouTube Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.6	Hey everybody. How are you? Welcome to the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy and I'm in Los Angeles.
1:11.3	It's good to be with you.
1:12.6	Thank you for tuning in.
1:14.7	I hope you're doing all right wherever you are.
1:17.7	My guest today is Lynn Tillman, author of a new work of nonfiction called Mother Care.
1:24.6	My mother said that to me about a month before she died. She was totally
1:31.1	lucid. She was sitting up in bed and I, as usual, I took the high road. I learned that I probably should take the low road more often, but I took the high
1:48.8	road and I said, you know, mother, that's not a very nice thing to say to your daughter, it's not
1:55.9	so nice to be so competitive. And then she said, I am competitive. That was Lynn Tillman, author of a memoir called
2:06.6	Mother Care on obligation, love, death, and ambivalence. Available now from soft skull,
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