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Product Description: Known for playful and provocative video projects that range from monumental installations to intimate, single-channel works, Pipilotti Rist (born 1962) is a pioneer of moving-image art. This publication examines the process and execution of Rist's "The Tender Room," a new environmentally scaled installation at the Wexner Center for the Arts...read more
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9781881390497 | Wexner Center for the Arts, September 30, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Known for playful and provocative video projects that range from monumental installations to intimate, single-channel works, Pipilotti Rist (born 1962) is a pioneer of moving-image art.

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Product Description: The New York of Lynne Tillman’s hilarious, audacious fourth novel is a boiling point of urban decay.The East Village streets are overrun with crooked cops, drug addicts, pimps and prostitutes. Garbage piles up along the sidewalks amid the blaring soundtrack of car stereos...read more
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9781935869016 | Pgw, January 15, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The New York of Lynne Tillman’s hilarious, audacious fourth novel is a boiling point of urban decay.
9780156008600 | Harvest Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A humorous novel of urban life pits a 'heroic' woman against her apathetic landlord and the group of petty hoodlums raising Cain under her window every night.

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Product Description: The stories in Some Day This Will Be Funny marry memory to moment in a union of narrative form as immaculate and imperfect as the characters damned to act them out on page. Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius, presides over the ceremony; Clarence Thomas, Marvin Gaye, and Madame Realism mingle at the reception...read more
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9781935869009 | Pgw, April 22, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The stories in Some Day This Will Be Funny marry memory to moment in a union of narrative form as immaculate and imperfect as the characters damned to act them out on page.

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Product Description: In uncompromising and fresh prose, Tillman tells the story of three very contemporary girls. Grace, Emily and Jane collide with friends, family, and culture under dark and comic circumstances, presented in uncanny, disturbing, and sometimes shocking terms...read more
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9780671637194 | Poseidon Pr, February 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Details the experiences of three young women in their changing roles as friends, daughters, sisters, and lovers as they struggle with the ironies and casual betrayals of everyday life

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9781935869047 | Pgw, June 28, 2011, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In uncompromising and fresh prose, Tillman tells the story of three very contemporary girls.
9781852424008 | Reprint edition (Serpents Tail, July 1, 1995), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: This novel chronicles the loneliness of childhood and incipient womanhood, the salvation of friendship and the ties between daughters and parents, by recording the events in the lives of Grace, Emily and Jane, growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in urban middle-class families.

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Product Description: For the narrator of Motion Sickness, life is an unguided tour. Adrift in Europe, she improvises a life and a self. In London, she's befriended by an expatriate American Buddhist and her mysterious husband, or may or may not be stalking her...read more
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9780671730284 | Poseidon Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Adrift in Europe during the mid-1980s, the narrator travels through the Continent, and explores her dreams, desires, and beliefs as she meets other wanderers in search of themselves

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9781935869030 | Pgw, January 8, 2013, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: For the narrator of Motion Sickness, life is an unguided tour.
9781451636703 | Simon & Schuster, December 3, 2010, cover price $14.99
9781852422196 | Reprint edition (Serpents Tail, September 1, 1992), cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Describing the travels of a young American throughout Europe, this darkly humorous novel dwells on the various characters the narrator encounters and how each embodies the history and culture of different areas.

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Product Description: While the tumultuous 1970s rock the world around them, a collection of aging expatriates linger in a quiet town on the island of Crete, where they have escaped their pasts and their present. Among them is Horace, a gay American writer who fears he has finally reached old age...read more
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9780671788148 | Poseidon Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: When Helen, the secretive young woman who has become an object of fascination for him, disappears mysteriously, Horace, a gay American man living in Crete, begins a delirious quest for her

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9781935869023 | Pgw, July 12, 2011, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: While the tumultuous 1970s rock the world around them, a collection of aging expatriates linger in a quiet town on the island of Crete, where they have escaped their pasts and their present.
9781451636666 | Simon & Schuster, December 3, 2010, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: When Helen, the secretive young woman who has become an object of fascination for him, disappears mysteriously, Horace, a gay American man living in Crete, begins a delirious quest for her.
9781852423407 | Reprint edition (Serpents Tail, September 1, 1993), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Set in an eccentric community of expatriates living in Crete in 1975, Cast in Doubt is the story of Horace, an American gay man who writes mystery novels, and Helen, a secretive young woman he befriends.

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Product Description: When Rudolph Giuliani's administration cracked down on Times Square strip clubs in the 1990s, a whole new burlesque movement was born in New York, concentrating less on the strip and more on the tease. The young New York photographer Lisa Kereszi, then an assistant to Nan Goldin, was there with her camera to catch it all happening...read more
By Lisa Kereszi (photographer) and Lynne Tillman
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9788862080293 | Damiani Editore, March 1, 2008, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: When Rudolph Giuliani's administration cracked down on Times Square strip clubs in the 1990s, a whole new burlesque movement was born in New York, concentrating less on the strip and more on the tease.

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The National Book Critics Circle Award-finalist author of No Lease on Life presents a Jane Austen-style parable for the twenty-first century in which the members of a scholarly colony struggle with competing values. Original.
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9781933368443 | 1 edition (Soft Skull Pr, November 15, 2006), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The National Book Critics Circle Award-finalist author of No Lease on Life presents a Jane Austen-style parable for the twenty-first century in which the members of a scholarly colony struggle with competing values.

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Presents a catalog of an exhibition highlighting the works of Kiki Smith, in a volume that also includes critical essays, an interview with the artist, and a chronology of Smith's life and work.
By Siri Engberg, Linda Nochlin, Kiki Smith, Lynne Tillman (contributor) and Marina Warner (contributor)
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9780935640793 | Walker Art Center, March 1, 2006, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Presents a catalog of an exhibition highlighting the works of Kiki Smith, in a volume that also includes critical essays, an interview with the artist, and a chronology of Smith's life and work.

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Product Description: With her bold use of color and undulating, twisting lines, Karin Davie works at the intersection between representation and abstraction, creating sensuous, psychological, and completely exhilarating canvases. "In a sense, painting is like dance—the movement, the process, the image...read more
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9780847828302 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, February 7, 2006, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: With her bold use of color and undulating, twisting lines, Karin Davie works at the intersection between representation and abstraction, creating sensuous, psychological, and completely exhilarating canvases.

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9780971119376 | Lukas & Sternberg, December 1, 2002, cover price $30.00

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Presents a collection of twenty-three short stories which are based loosely on pieces of art. (view table of contents)
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9781891024467 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, November 1, 2002, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Presents a collection of twenty-three short stories which are based loosely on pieces of art.

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9781891024573 | Limited edition (Distributed Art Pub Inc, October 2, 2002), cover price $150.00 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: Marco Breuer makes photographs without using a camera. In a process similar to that used to make photograms, one of the oldest photographic forms, Breuer directly exposes photo-sensitive paper to light and heat and materials like spit, blood, nail clippings, Windex, jello, beer, mold, kitchen matches, bomb fuses, and hot coals...read more
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9780967077482 | Roth Horowitz, May 1, 2002, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Marco Breuer makes photographs without using a camera.

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Product Description: "Like Tosca, Charles Henri Ford has lived for art and love...a masterpiece"---Edmund White
By Charles Henri Ford and Lynne Tillman (introduced by)
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9781885586209 | Turtle Point Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: "Like Tosca, Charles Henri Ford has lived for art and love.

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A behind-the-scenes look at the woman who founded one of the nation's great independent books stores relies on testimony from the customers, employees, and writers whose lives were changed by their relationship with Books & Co. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
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9780151004256 | Harcourt, October 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A behind-the-scenes look at the woman who founded one of the nation's premier independent bookstores relies on testimony from the customers, employees, and writers

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The author of Haunted Houses depicts twenty-four gritty hours in the life of a New Yorker, Elizabeth Hall, who struggles to keep her wits about her and her friends close by as she goes about existing in the Big Apple.
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9780151002726 | Harcourt, January 1, 1998, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Depicts twenty-four gritty hours in the life of a New Yorker, Elizabeth Hall, who struggles to keep her wits about her and her friends close by as she goes about her life in the East Village

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Product Description: The first collection of essays from one of America's most exceptional writers
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9781852424404 | Serpents Tail, August 1, 1997, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The first collection of essays from one of America's most exceptional writers

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9781881390152 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, June 1, 1997, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: An irreverent and lucid sojourn through the facetious, twisted burps we call sophisticated society, captured by the camera-quick and ruthless eye of the ever-vigilant third person, Madame Realism...read more
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9780936756868 | Semiotext, December 1, 1992, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: An irreverent and lucid sojourn through the facetious, twisted burps we call sophisticated society, captured by the camera-quick and ruthless eye of the ever-vigilant third person, Madame Realism.

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Product Description: Photographs by Aura Rosenberg.
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9781881616566 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, October 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Photographs by Aura Rosenberg.

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9781560250982 | Thunder''s Mouth Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: Roni Horn: Gurgles, Sucks, Echoes. Text by Lynne Tillman. 1995. Wraps. 38 color plates. 86 pages.
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9781880146101 | Matthew Marks, June 1, 1995, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Roni Horn: Gurgles, Sucks, Echoes.

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Product Description: This novel plunges the reader back to the experimental and enlightened London and Amsterdam of the late 1960s, where the heroine explores theatre, underground film, and men, recklessly chasing every experience which confirms her femininity.
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9781852421762 | Serpents Tail, March 1, 1991, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: This novel plunges the reader back to the experimental and enlightened London and Amsterdam of the late 1960s, where the heroine explores theatre, underground film, and men, recklessly chasing every experience which confirms her femininity.

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