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'Thrilled to Death,' by Lynne Tillman

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Alexandra Jacobs |Lynne Tillman

"Thrilled to Death" collects many of Lynne Tillman's spiky short stories, where dreams tell the truth and glamour mingles with the mundane. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. THRILLED TO DEATH: Selected Stories, by Lynne TillmanLynne Tillman is an emissary from a vanishing literary culture that you want to describe as "downtown," regardless of where she actually lives.
Holly Connolly - Do You Remember When…?

Oct 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Lynne Tillman

The paradox of the past is that it is both over and always with us. In American Genius, A Comedy,Lynne Tillman’s concern is memory, though she seems mostly uninterested in easy, well-worn clichés around its unreliability. Instead of these, Tillman gives us a kind of experiment: a wild, digressive novel in which the narrator’s memory is given equal weight to, or even greater weight than, her present-day reality.
Hot Off the Presses: A New Batch of Personal Essays

Jun 24, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Jeneé Skinner |Richard Kelly Kemick |Lynne Tillman |Kathleen Alcott

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus, Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “Smoke,” by . The Lit Lab, featuring interviews and essays on craft and publishing.
‘My Body Was My Vehicle’: Joan Jonas on Becoming a Performance Artist

Apr 24, 2024 | frieze.com | Joan Jonas |Lynne Tillman

Lynne Tillman Joan, you’ve just come from MoMA. What was it like installing this … are you calling it a retrospective? Joan Jonas I’d never do that. I’m calling it a survey because it is not everything I’ve made, but it’s a lot. LT How do you figure out the best way to show all this very diverse work? JJ You have to make a model, so a model, actually two, were made: one is at my place and the other, which was the working model until very recently, is at MoMA.
So Many Personal Essays...

Mar 18, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Laureli Ivanoff |Lynne Tillman |Mark Bessen |Victoria Chan

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus, Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “You Have Been Given,” an excerpt of ’s new essay collection.
Pat Hartley and Lynne Tillman Reflect on James Baldwin's Centennial

Jan 25, 2024 | interviewmagazine.com | Lynne Tillman |Jake Nevins

In I Heard it Through the Grapevine, Pat Hartley and Dick Fontaine’s essential 1982 documentary following James Baldwin’s travels through the Deep South some two decades after the civil rights movement, Baldwin figures as a kind of custodian of history, quiet, watchful, and reflective.
Nan Goldin’s Addictions, Losses and Enduring Friendships

Oct 18, 2023 | frieze.com | Lynne Tillman

Nan Goldin’s Memory Lost opens with Super-8 film of beautiful, young people dancing, having fun, while Eartha Kitt sings about ‘unspoiled gender’ and ‘being pure [...] not wanting to be chased’. No, Kitt sings, ‘I want to go to the devil; I want to be evil.’In the 1980s in New York, heroin and coke fuelled parties, clubs, minds. Fashion photographs of the 1990s portrayed stoned models in images called ‘heroin chic’.
A Cat Called Griselda

Jul 19, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Lynne Tillman |Nicole Flattery

Lynne Tillman doesn’t believe in redemption. ‘Contemporary novels,’ she complained in 2001, ‘have become a repository for salvation; characters – and consequentially readers – are supposed to be saved at the end.’ Tillman has always avoided sentimentality. ‘Detachment would keep her fresh, it was a kind of freedom,’ the narrator says in Haunted Houses (1987), her first novel. But if you don’t believe in salvation, how do you feel about death?
Yvonne Rainer in Conversation with Lynne Tillman

Feb 6, 2023 | metrograph.com | Lynne Tillman

I never saw Yvonne Rainer dance in the flesh, didn’t go to Judson. I started watching her films in the late 1970s, and came to know her from living in NYC and going to screenings and parties. Sheila McLaughlin and I made a feature film, Committed, which came out in 1984. Yvonne had generously helped fund our very low-budget film. In 1985 Yvonne and I were invited to be on a conference on narrative and documentary film, which was held at Hunter College.
The Unusual Vision of Diane Arbus

Jan 27, 2023 | frieze.com | Lynne Tillman

A gangly white boy senses something behind him, turns and spots a woman with a camera pointed at him. His face registers surprise, so his expression is blank, empty. The sensation leaves him without words. Now the boy is vulnerable.