Literary Reading at Buckham Gallery /  by Tim Lane

I will be reading from Your Silent Face at Buckham Gallery in Flint on September 17th, from 2-4, along with Catharine Batsios, Connor Coyne and Kelsey Ronan. Four writers from Flint with writings about, and influenced by, Flint.

Your Silent Face is an 80s coming-of-age story told by a story-telling character who obsesses on New Wave music, drinking, fantasizing, generational trauma, romance, loyalty, art, college and many things Flint.

#80smusic #newwave #joydivision #iancurtis #comingofage #literaryfiction #fiction #flint #michigan #midwest #nativeamericanliterature #clubbing #contemporaryliterature #contemporaryfiction #genx #lovelansing

“In Lane’s literary novel, a music lover attempts to make sense of his reality in 1980s Michigan…A meandering but vigorous story about wayward youth and the necessity of art.”
— Kirkus Reviews

New Exhibit at the Michigan State University Residential College in the Arts & Humanties /  by Tim Lane

Happy to announce you can peep a lot of my work from 2020-2022 at the Michigan State University Residential College in the Arts and Humanities now thru October. Located in the display cases on the 2nd floor of Snyder-Phillips, between the LookOut! Gallery and RCAH Student Center. Please stop by 🙂

Connor Coyne's Review of Your Silent Face /  by Tim Lane

I ain’t going to lie. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Connor’s full review. He took the gloves off. Critical and thoughtful. Please have a look. Full review here.

#yoursilentface #fiction #comingofage #flint #80s #genx #newwave #postpunk #newwavemusic #joydivision #iancurtis #nativeamerican

“It’s also a master class in stream-of-consciousness narrative, where the prosaic and the profound mingle freely in the mind and words of narrator Stuart Page, a halfway burnt out college kid at home for the summer, a musical critic with an obsessive streak, and a young but practiced alcoholic. Someone could write a thesis on hangovers in this book.”
— Connor Coyne

Buckham Gallery Reading /  by Tim Lane

We are mega excited to be reading from our work at Buckham Gallery in September! Details below. Jump to Buckham Gallery here.

Link to my 80s coming-of-age and ode to New Wave novel, Your Silent Face, below, as well.

“A meandering but vigorous story about wayward youth and the necessity of art.” —Kirkus Reviews

#BuckhamGallery #flint #literaryfiction #poetry #KelseyRonan #chevyinthehole #ConnorCoyne #urbantasm #TimLane #yoursilentface #CatharineBatsios

Cant Get There from Here: A New Painting /  by Tim Lane

Hello. You are here. Please stay. There’s a lot to go over.

#worksonpaper #contemporarypainting #artistofinstagram #watercolor #painting #space #quantummechanics #art

Cant Get There from Here, 2022

Your Silent Face Available in Paperback plus The Playlist /  by Tim Lane

“In Lane’s literary novel, a music lover attempts to make sense of his reality in 1980s Michigan…A meandering but vigorous story about wayward youth and the necessity of art.” —Kirkus Reviews

#comingofage #80s #80smusic #flint #midwest #rustbelt #genx #newwave #newwavemusic #joydivision #iancurtis #nativeamericanliterature #yoursilentface #yoursilentfacethenovel #yoursilentfacetimlane #novel #fiction #lovelansing

What lies ahead that doesn’t suck? Summer break forces Stuart Page to return home and wrestle with his fraying ties to the East Side of Flint, his memory an archive of cassettes he would like to erase. His freshman year of college was lame. More early Cure than Spandau Ballet, he might be overheard saying. More Gary Numan than Falco.

Flustered by visits from a stoic viking, fueled by an endless supply of beer, Stu picks apart an obsession with the lead singer of Joy Division and chugs the sour dregs of insecurity as he drunkenly veers through Flint’s blue collar fight culture, summer hook ups, the aftereffects of Old School Catholicism and Reaganomics in Your Silent Face.