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