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Lynne Tillman

Lynne Tillman writes novels, short stories, and essays. Her novels are: Haunted Houses (1987); Motion Sickness (1991); Cast in Doubt (1992); No Lease on Life (finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, 1998), American Genius, A Comedy (2006), and Men and Apparitions (2018). Her short fiction collections: The Madame Realism Complex (1992); This Is Not It (2002); Someday This Will Be Funny (2011), and The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories (2016). Tillman’s books of nonfiction: The Broad Picture (1992); The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory (1995); Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co. (1998), and What Would Lynne Tillman Do? (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, 2014). Her stories and essays appear frequently in artists’ books/museum catalogues, including those of Cindy Sherman, Raymond Pettibon, Barbara Kruger, Stephen Shore, On Kawara, Peter Dreher, Anne Collier, Laurie Simmons et al. She contributes writing to Frieze art magazine, Artforum, and Aperture. Tillman received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), and a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation grant for arts writing (2014). In Fall (2019), Tillman was the Visiting Distinguished Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art History at Williams College. In 2022, her autobiographical book-length essay MOTHERCARE, will be published by Soft Skull Press.