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There's something unique about a Lynne Tillman sentence: almost every sentence she writes carries with it a surprise, a small bomb that explodes later. In reading these essays, and other works by Tillman, I constantly have the feeling that I'm walking on unstable ground held up somehow by very skilled hands. She is in these pages funny, insightful, human, astonishing, and very serious, often all at the same time. And what's particularly refreshing here (and seemed to irk another reviewer) is that she does not lead the reader by the nose, and refuses to come to definite conclusions. These are essays for the 21st century, but written with an eye to how the essay form first originated, which was exactly what the word means, an attempt, an effort, a trial, a venture -- and often into unknown territory. The news Tillman brings back from these explorations is that the essay form, in her hands, is very much alive and vibrant.
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In these essays, interviews and occasional pieces, the concision and brilliance of her great novel, American Genius, shines everywhere. In bite size pieces. It's a wonderful book to start with if you don't know her work and you have novel-comittment phobia. Whatever she thinks/writes about, she thinks about seriously and conveys with a wondrous, light agility. Her lack of pretentiousness seems in almost exact measure equal to the seriousness of the project she has taken on. Her interview with the far too little read Etel Adnan is among this reader's favorites. Rare is the Tillman sentence that does not surprise me, challenge me, shed light.
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Lynne Tillman, author of more than a dozen books, does many things, but what she does not do is fool — us or her subjects.
What Would Lynne Tillman Do? is a compendium of Tillman's curiosities and interests, interviews and dissections over the past two decades, to which we're now privy as we peek over her shoulder. And what a privilege it is.
She interviews the artist Peter Dreher who has been drawing the same glass everyday since 1974. Except her recording device fails to capture their first interview, forcing her back to repeat the same interview with the man who repeats his paintings. "I think we laughed more the second time," she writes. It's somehow both cute and wry.
On Spike Jonez and Being John Malkovich she frames or summarizes: "To the star-obsessed, being known might mean not having to know yourself, and if you don’t like yourself, this must be freedom."
Writing about the internet in 1995 we join her in exploring the old language of 'cyberspace:' "I love the use of the word gopher; the hiddenness of cyberplaces realized by a furry, furtive animal is futurist anthropomorphism." And the hilarious details she pulls from that then messy world: 'Alt.Baldspot — “Oh, my shiney head, my achin’ baldspot. I’m writing to ask all of you what is the best baldspot shining method …"'
What Would Lynne Tillman Do? is to be read in sequence or out of sequence. It's our encyclopedia to the world through the eyes of Tillman. To be referenced as needed as needs arise. However consumed, and under whatever context, we are never without delight, without feeling witness to Tillman's wonder and that curious, smart lens through which the world enters her mind.
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"What would Lynne Tillman Do" is a brilliant collection of essays, not quite like anything I've ever read. Subtle, astute, profound, political, theoretical, surprising, it shows a remarkable breadth of knowledge combined with a great sense of humor. I'm going to reread it very soon.
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