,
Robie Harris,
Rakesh Satyal and Tillman speaking on the effect of government surveillance on author self-censorship, with other authors at the 2014
Brooklyn Book Festival Fiction Tillman's novels include:
American Genius, A Comedy (2006);
No Lease on Life (1998), which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Award in Fiction;
Cast in Doubt (1992);
Motion Sickness (1991); and
Haunted Houses (1987). In March 2018, her sixth novel
Men and Apparitions was published by Soft Skull Press.
Absence Makes the Heart (1990) is Tillman's first collection of short stories.
The Broad Picture (1997) is a collection of Tillman's essays, which were published originally in literary and art periodicals. 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.
Nonfiction 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.
What Would Lynne Tillman Do? (2014)
, her second essay collection, was a Finalist for the
National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism in 2014. ==Personal life==