Lynne Tillman’s “Thrilled to Death”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak to Lynne Tillman about her latest book, “Thrilled to Death,” a collection of short stories selected from over four decades of her work.
By LARB Radio HourApril 4, 2025
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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak to Lynne Tillman about her latest book, Thrilled to Death, a collection of short stories selected from over four decades of her work. The stories in Thrilled to Death attest to Tillman’s range as a writer and stylist, showcasing her frenetic humor, deep psychological insight, and her innovation of the form. Ever playful and perverse, these stories cover terrains of urban existence, romantic obsession, familial entanglement, the interplay between culture—particularly film—and experience, along with the carnivalesque of American life in all of its absurdity.
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