Ithaca College

The Distinguished Visiting Writers Series, supported by the Department of Writing and the School of Humanities and Sciences, is thrilled to present a public reading and Q&A with essayist T Fleischmann on Tuesday, October 27th, at 6:00 p.m.

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T Fleischmann is the author of and Syzygy, Beauty (Sarabande Books, 2012) and Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through (Coffee House Press, 2019).

Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through asks, How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? In this book, Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzáles-Torres’s artworks―piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles―as a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation, gender and sexuality.

And here is Sarabande Books' description of Fleischmann's first book, Syzygy, Beauty: An Essay: "The word 'syzygy' refers at once to the alignment of celestial bodies in astronomy, repeating relationships in mathematics, and male/female pairings in Gnosticism. T Fleischmann’s Syzygy, Beauty, then, is an essay ordered by complimentary needs: art criticism, the narrator's construction of a house, and the direct address of a lover. Playing with scale and repetition, the speaker keeps us off-center, and therefore always looking, as we are led through an intimate relationship that is complicated and deepened by multiple partners, gender transitions, and itinerancy. In language both plainspoken and startling, Fleischmann attempts a reconciliation between the sadness and beauty that come with a love that must always be, in some ways, distant."

A nonfiction editor at DIAGRAM, contributing editor at the blog Essay Daily, and curator of Body Forms: Queerness and the Essay, they have published critical and creative work in journals such as the Los Angeles Review of Books, Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast, and others, as well in the anthologies Bending Genre, How We Speak to One Another, Little Boxes, and Feminisms in Motion.

Read some of their recent work and interviews here:

"We Are All Scared by What We Aren't Saying" (Paris Review)

"My Ecstatic Body - Interview" (BOMB Magazine)

"Altered States: T Fleischmann Discusses Time Is a Thing the Body Moves Through" (NewCityLit)

"A Yell and a Song: PW Talks with T Fleischmann (Publishers Weekly)

"Interview with T Clutch Flieschmann" (Kenyon Review)

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