Description: Justine Kurland, known for her utopian photographs of American landscapes and their fringe communities, has spent the better part of the last twelve years on the road.
Brief description: Lynne Tillman is a novelist, storywriter, and critic. Among her publications are the essay collection What Would Lynne Tillman Do? (2013), the story collection Someday This Will Be Funny (2011), and the novel American Genius: A Comedy (2006). She writes a bimonthly column, "In These Intemperate Times," for Frieze magazine. An excerpt from her novel-in-progress, Men and Apparitions, was published by Semiotext(e) as part of its installation for the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
Review Quotes: "I often see books that I wish we had published and this is top of that list in recent times. Kurland's life and photography are bound up in her travels across America with her son over a period of 12 years. As an artist and mother, Kurland navigates the vacillating desires for routine and adventure. Peripheral landscapes of doomed American dreams remain at the forefront. The quotidian routines she documents are intimately portrayed in a subtle manner that avoids voyeurism and yet which touchingly portray a love and simplicity away from the complexity of city life."--Michael Mack