Lynne Tillman’s most recent book is This Is Not It, a collection of stories inspired by contemporary art. Her novels are Haunted Houses, Motion Sickness, Cast in Doubt, and No Lease on Life; her other fiction collections are The Madame Realism Complex and Absence Makes the Heart. She lives in Manhattan with musician David Hofstra.

• May 2004: Interview with Kiki Smith
  On the important distinction between bestiality and interspecies love, constructing a bridge to the unknown, and paper balloons.