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Series XII: Essay and Story Collections

Scope and Content

Series XII: Essay and Story Collections contains materials pertaining to Lynne Tillman's several short story works. These materials consist of research, annotated drafts, reviews, etc. This series is divided into four subseries:

A: Absence Makes the Heart
B: Madame Realism Complex
C: The Broad Picture
D: This Is Not It

Series XII, Subseries A: Absence Makes the Heart (1991)

Absence Makes the Heart, Undated

Box: 22, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Absence Makes the Heart, Undated

Box: 22, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Absence Makes the Heart, Undated

Box: 22, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Absence Makes the Heart, Undated

Box: 22, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Absence Makes the Heart - Annotated Draft, Undated

Box: 22, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Absence Makes the Heart - Annotated Draft, Undated

Box: 22, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Absence Makes the Heart - Collected Short Pieces - Including "Myself as a Menu", "Dead Talk" (1 of 2), Undated

Box: 22, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Absence Makes the Heart - Collected Short Pieces (2 of 2), Undated

Box: 22, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Absence Makes the Heart - Component Pieces, Annotated Draft, Undated

Box: 22, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Absence Makes the Heart - Copy and Annotated Draft, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Absence Makes the Heart first draft, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Absence Makes the Heart - Promotion and Publicity, 1991

Box: 23, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Absence Makes the Heart - Publicity and Reviews, 1990

Box: 23, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Absence Makes the Heart - Reviews and Publicity, 1990-1992, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

AKA Megatroid, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

AKA Megatroid annotated, cut and paste, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dead Talk annotated draft, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Diary of a Masochist annotated draft, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Diary of a Masochist annotated draft, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Hung Up", Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Hung Up", Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Imitation of Life, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Marilyn Monroe: Dead Talk - 1st version annotated, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Marilyn Monroe / Dead Talk and Fixing Memory annotated papers, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Original Draft handwritted - Weird Fucks, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Other Movies", Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Other Movies" annotated, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"The Day Before We Moved In...", Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Trouble with Beauty - 1st version, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Trouble with Beauty - for Conjunctions, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Trouble with Beauty - Patrick's Copyediting, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Trouble with Beauty - Two copies of annotated draft, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Wierd Fucks, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Weird Fucks, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Weird Fucks - Annotated draft, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Weird Fucks draft (1 of 2), Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Weird Fucks draft (2 of 2), Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Weird Fucks "It was Ramadan..." pages 1-10, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Weird Fucks - Original Manuscript with annotations, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Words Without Pictures, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XII, Subseries B: Madame Realism Complex (1992)

Dynasty Reruns, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dynasty Reruns: "Treasure Houses of Great Britain" - Art in America, 1986

Box: 23, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ellis "Madame Realism", Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Madame Realism, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Madame Realism Complex, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Madame Realism Complex, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Madame Realism Complex (1 of 2), Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Madame Realism Complex (2 of 2), Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Madame Realism Complex / How I Became One of the Invisible by David Rattray, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Madame Realism Complex press and publicity, 1992-1995, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Madame Realism Complex publicity, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Madame Realism Complex - Trade Blurb, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Madame Realism Takes a Look, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Madame Realism's Imitation of Life", Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Myself as a Menu - excerpts from Something in Progress, 1976

Box: 23, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

On the Road with Madame Realism, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reviews of "Madame Realism Complex"; Native Agents Title, 1992-1993, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XII, Subseries C: The Broad Picture

The Broad Picture - Advance, uncorrected proof, 1997

Box: 23, Folder: 49 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Broad Picture - Beeksbee Books Promotions, 1997

Box: 23, Folder: 50 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Broad Picture - Cover, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 51 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Broad Picture: Essays - Press and Publicity, 1997

Box: 23, Folder: 52 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Broad Picture: Essays 1987-1996 - Table of contents and Preface, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 53 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Broad Picture Manuscript, Phil's Comments, 1997

Box: 23, Folder: 54 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Broad Picture publicity, 1997

Box: 23, Folder: 55 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Broad Picture - Tillman essay collection, 1985-1992, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 56 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Essays with selecte/possible table of contents (1 of 2), Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 57 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Essays with selected/possible table of contents (2 of 2), 1980-1994, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 58 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Like Rockets and Television II, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 59 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Looking for Trouble - Frieze, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 60 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Love Song for Ray Charles, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 61 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Telling Tales - early draft, Undated

Box: 23, Folder: 62 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XII, Subseries D: This Is Not It (2002)

American Institute of Graphic Arts - Excellence in Design for "This is Not It", 2003

Box: 24, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

CameraWork Benefit Auction, 2003

Box: 24, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence for "This is Not It", 2002

Box: 24, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Juan Munoz for Parkett - Oversize folders, Undated

Box: 24, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Lust for Loss", Undated

Box: 24, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Official "This is Not It" Awards with self portrait (polaroid), Undated

Box: 24, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Pleasure isn't a Pretty Picture" Reading, Undated

Box: 24, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

This is Not It - Permissions, Lists, Drafts, 2002

Box: 24, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

This is Not It - Galleys (1 of 2), 2002

Box: 24, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

This is Not It - Galleys (2 of 2), 2002

Box: 24, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

This is Not It - Publicity, Reviews, ad Material, 2002-2003, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

TV Tales annotated draft, Undated

Box: 24, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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