MEDIUM WORLD

What has become of Leonard Tillerman?

He was here, then gone, then here again, then gone again

Edward Thomas
2 min readMay 26, 2024

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Portrait of Leonard Tillerman
Leonard Tillerman, from his discontinued Substack Page

Probably the greatest thing about writing here on Medium is the vast society of writers we find here.

When I first joined in December 2021, I was immediately able to hook up with a wide variety of kind and helpful souls.

One writer I met after being on Medium for a short while was Leonard Tillerman.

At the time, Leonard wrote book reviews, almost exclusively.
Even though I was not very interested in the books he reviewed, I dutifully clapped, highlighted, and commented in support of his work.
Leonard reciprocated in kind.

Then, sometime around September 2022, real-world events conspired to rob me of the time I had been spending to write Medium articles. Just before I stopped writing, I saw an article by Leonard announcing that he would be leaving Medium to concentrate on creating Substack content. I visited his Substack several times to take a look, but since it was all reviews of books that did not interest me, I stopped going there.

Then in January 2024, I started writing again.

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Edward Thomas

Chicago | Japan since 1969 | Japanese>English translator, editor | Teaches English at Japanese University. | Buy me a ko-fi @ ko-fi.com/edwardthomas