PANEL DISCUSSION: Simeon Marsalis, Cynan Jones, Lynne Tillman

Published: Dec. 19, 2019, 11:57 a.m.

b'Panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on April 10, 2018, featuring Simeon Marsalis (As Lie Is To Grin), Cynan Jones (Stillicide), and Lynne Tillman (What Would Lynne Tillman Do?). Check back Thursday for the discussion!\\nAbout our readers:\\nSimeon Marsalis\\xa0was born in 1990 and graduated from the University of Vermont in 2013. He is from New Rochelle, New York, and has lived in New York City and New Orleans.\\xa0As Lie Is to Grin\\xa0is his first book.\\nCynan Jones\\xa0was born in 1975 near Aberaeron, Wales where he now lives and works. He is the author of five short novels,\\xa0The Long Dry,\\xa0Everything I Found on the Beach,\\xa0Bird, Blood, Snow,\\xa0The Dig, and\\xa0Cove. He has been longlisted and shortlisted for numerous prizes and won a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award 2007, a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2014 and the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2015. His latest work is\\xa0Stillicide, a collection of twelve stories commissioned by BBC Radio 4 that aired over the summer 2019.\\nLynne Tillman\\u2019s novel include\\xa0Haunted Houses,\\xa0Motion Sickness,\\xa0Cast in Doubt,\\xa0No Lease on Life,\\xa0American Genius, A Comedy, and, most recently,\\xa0Men and Apparitions. Her fiction collections include\\xa0Absence Makes the Heart,\\xa0The Madame Realism Complex,\\xa0This Is Not It,\\xa0Someday This Will Be Funny, and\\xa0The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories. Additionally, Tillman has published a number of books of nonfiction and essays, including\\xa0The Broad Picture,\\xa0The Velvet Years: Warhol\\u2019s Factory 1965-67,\\xa0Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co., and\\xa0What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'