Lynne Tillman (New York, NY) is the author of five novels, three collections of short stories, one collection of essays and two other nonfiction books. She collaborates often with artists and writes regularly on culture, and her fiction is anthologized widely. Her last collection of short stories, This Is Not It, included 23 stories based on the work of 22 contemporary artists. Her novels include American Genius, A Comedy (2006), No Lease on Life (1998) which was a New York Times Notable Book of 1998 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Cast in Doubt (1992), Motion Sickness (1991), and Haunted Houses (1987). The Broad Picture (1997) collected Tillmans essays, which were published in literary and art periodicals. She is the Fiction Editor at Fence Magazine, Professor and Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at the University at Albany, and a recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Novels
Haunted Houses (1987)
Motion Sickness (1991)
Cast in Doubt (1992)
No Lease On Life (1998)
American Genius (2006)
Men and Apparitions (2018)
Motion Sickness (1991)
Cast in Doubt (1992)
No Lease On Life (1998)
American Genius (2006)
Men and Apparitions (2018)
Collections
Absence Makes the Heart (1990)
This Is Not It (2002)
Someday This Will Be Funny (2011)
Weird Fucks (2015)
The Complete Madame Realism (2016)
Thrilled to Death (2025)
This Is Not It (2002)
Someday This Will Be Funny (2011)
Weird Fucks (2015)
The Complete Madame Realism (2016)
Thrilled to Death (2025)
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