Interviews

‘Selected Novels’: on Edith Wharton with Lillian Fishman / The Point podcast / forthcoming

Kaia Gerber’s Book Club / Instagram Live / June 3, 2023

Main Characters feat. Cal Kenny & Lillian Fishman / Main Characters Podcast / October 17, 2022

LSHB’s Weird Era feat. Lillian Fishman / Weird Era Podcast / July 8, 2022

Influencing Acts of Service / Bookshop / July/August 2022

C&TH Book Club: Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service / C&TH / July/August 2022

Lillian Fishman on her ‘Juicy, angsty, investigative’ debut novel / All Arts / June 29, 2022

Mary Gaitskill: Me and Lillian talk about Acts of Service / Out of It by Mary Gaitskill / June 27, 2022

Putting the Ethics of a Messy Threesome on Trial / Electric Literature / June 21, 2022

Acts of Service unpacks the politics of desire / Coveteur / June 8, 2022

Lillian Fishman in conversation with Lena Dunham / University Bookstore / June 6, 2022

Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service / The Bar and the Bookcase / May 12, 2022

Author Lillian Fishman on a new kind of queer novel / The Cut / May 6, 2022

Novelist Lillian Fishman Shapes a Kinky Love Triangle / Interview / April 27, 2022

Incoming press

Anne Hathaway on “spicy” Acts of Service / The New York Times / April 27, 2024

In Praise of the Idiotic Erotic / LitHub / July 26, 2023

Erotic Fiction / The Point / October 18, 2022

Controlled / The Drift / October 12, 2022

How the novel got its sex drive back / GQ / August 10, 2022

A “sex masterpiece / The Guardian / July 22, 2022

The raunchiest book of the summer / The Daily Mail / July 18, 2022

Female desire, center stage / Business Post / July 8, 2022

The purpose of sex: a bold and searching debut novel / The New Statesman / July 5, 2022

“A potent, erotic, and challenging novel” / The Independent / July 4, 2022

Briefly noted / The New Yorker / June 5, 2022

Women on the edge / Bay Area Reporter / May 24, 2022

Seduction is performance in Acts of Service / Chicago Review of Books / May 13, 2022

Young women and their ‘unfinished business’ / The New York Times / May 11, 2022

“An evocative exploration of desire and sexuality” / Kirkus Reviews / March 16, 2022

Past events

JULY 19, 2023

Lillian Fishman & Carmen Maria Machado

Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY

JULY 12, 7pm BST

Lillian Fishman in Conversation with Alexandra Heminsley

The Feminist Bookshop, Brighton, UK

JULY 13

Daunt Spotlight: Début Authors Panel with Chloë Ashby, Jem Calder

Daunt Books, London

JULY 7, 7pm BST

Lillian Fishman in Conversation with Merve Emre

Foyles Bookshop, London

JUNE 28, 7pm

Casa delle Letterature, Rome

JULY 5, 7pm

Tuba, Rome

MAY 24, 6pm PST

A Conversation with Lillian Fishman and Lena Dunham

University Bookstore Seattle, virtual

MAY 23, 7pm EST

McNally Jackson presents Acts of Service: Lillian Fishman in conversation with Amy Rose Spiegel

McNally Jackson Seaport, 4 Fulton Street, New York, NY