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Ms. Tillman's characters are rigorously drawn, with a scrupulous regard for the truth of their inner lives . . . this is one of the most interesting works of fiction in recent times . . . Fans of both truth and fancy should find nourishment here."-LA Weekly Here’s an Author’s Bio. It could be written differently. I’ve written many for myself and read lots of other people’s. None is right or sufficient, each slants one way or the other. So, a kind of fiction – selection of events and facts.. So let me just say: I wanted to be a writer since I was eight years old. That I actually do write stories and novels and essays, and that they get published, still astonishes me. Lynne Tillman (born January 1, 1947) is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. She is currently Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at the University at Albany and teaches at the School of Visual Arts' Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program. [1] Tillman is the author of six novels, five collections of short stories, two collection of essays, and two other nonfiction books. She writes a bi-monthly column "In These Intemperate Times" for Frieze Art Magazine. My news is that my 6th novel MEN AND APPARITIONS will appear in march 2018 from Soft Skull Press. It's my first novel in 12 years. Each spring, I teach writing at University at Albany, in the English Dept., and in the fall, at The New School, in the Writing Dept.

Lynne Tillman: Well, I finished the first three chapters, one for each girl, and I said to myself, now they’re supposed to meet. This is a novel and characters are supposed to meet. But I couldn’t find a reason for them to meet. Maybe they’d meet at a party or they went to the same college or they knew the same people – but that all seemed phoney to me. I thought the novel is a container and the girls’ stories are contained within the novel, their lives are contiguous. They don’t know each other but they are living at the same time. And, of course, that probably was one of the many reasons why it was rejected by 18 publishers. In 1995, Tillman's nonfiction work, The Velvet Years: Warhol's Factory 1965-1967, was published with photographs by Stephen Shore; it presented 18 Warhol Factory personalities' narratives, based on interviews with them, as well as her critical essay on Andy Warhol, his art and studio. Tillman is also the author of the nonfiction book The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co. (1999), a cultural and social history of a literary landmark where writers and artists congregated for nearly 20 years. Lynne Tillman: I didn’t know any better than to have faith in it. And every time you get rejected it gets harder, but I had such a strong belief in what I had done in Haunted Houses , which is kind of crazy because I am a deeply neurotic person with a lot of anxieties and insecurities. I have been in some form of psychotherapy for basically all my adult life and yet… I felt so strongly about this novel.

Yeh, James (Dec 2017 – Jan 2018). "Lynne Tillman". Interviews. Writers. The Believer. 14 (3): 66–70. There are moments where I found the novel physically restrictive as if my spine was cast in iron, forcing me to put it down. It’s not especially graphic or gratuitously violent; instead, it holds up a distorted mirror of my memories. Forcing me to confront what I have experienced or watched other women experience. I was compelled to keep reading. It is not always joyous, and the characters are not always nice, but Tillman’s stylish prose keeps you hooked. She is masterfully skilled in depicting the unpleasant and the uncomfortable; it is her ability to evoke in you the desire to see what lurks in the darkness, to witness horror, to understand pain. Perhaps I could only keep reading because, as uncomfortable as it is to face, I saw elements of my life and my friends’ lives, relationships, and transitions into womanhood in this novel. Tillman refused to let me look away. I’ve lived with David Hofstra, a bass player, for many years. It makes a lot of sense to me that I live with a bass player, since time and rhythm are extremely important to my writing. He’s also a wonderful man.

National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2014". National Book Critics Circle. January 19, 2015. Archived from the original on January 22, 2015 . Retrieved January 29, 2015. Miller, Nicole (2018-03-24). "An Interview with Lynne Tillman". Hyperallergic . Retrieved 2021-09-30.

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Her other story collections are: The Madame Realism Complex (1992); This Is Not It (2002), stories written in response to the work of 22 contemporary artists; Someday This Will Be Funny (2011); and The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories. Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. Lynne Tillman's haunted houses are Freudian ones - the psyches of three girls, Emily, Jane, and Grace, each wrestling with the psychological 'ghosts' that shape them . . . . Frequently shifting points of view are expressed in crisp sentences. Rather than forming a modernist stream of consciousness, however, the writing remains controlled."-Lucy Atkins, Times Literary Supplement

Lynne Tillman's protagonists are so lifelike, engaging and accessible, one could overlook, though hardly remain unaffected by, the quality of her prose, with its unique balancing of character interrogation and headlong entertainment. Haunted Houses achieves that hardest of things: a fresh involvement of overheard life with the charisma of intelligent fiction. Its pleasures pull their weight."-Dennis Cooper

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In Haunted Houses, Lynne Tillman chronicles the loneliness of childhood and incipient womanhood, the salvation of friendship, and the neurotic chain that binds perpetually needy daughters to their perpetually self-absorbed parents. . . . Her style is spare and compelling, the effect of clinical authenticity."-New York Times Book Review

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