May 13: Lynne Tillman—Thrilled to Death
Presented by 192 Books, Lynne Tillman in conversation with Christine Smallwood to discuss her book Thrilled to Death (Soft Skull, 2025)
This event will take place in person at 192 Books at 192 10th Ave on Tuesday, May 13th at 7:00 PM ET. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. The discussion will also be streamed directly on this page. There is no login required. A recording will be archived.
Books will be available for sale after the conversation.
Lynne Tillman—Thrilled to Death (Soft Skull, 2025)
From award-winning novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman, Thrilled to Death is a collection of selected stories across the career of America’s most audacious writer. Curated by the author, Thrilled to Death is the definitive entry point for both established fans and new readers alike. These selected stories collect a bold, playful, and eclectic ensemble of Tillman’s Borgesian fictions that span decades and traverse themes of sex, death, memory, and anxiety. With argumentative wit, Tillman’s meditations and reflections on art, politics, and culture are animated by deliciously paradoxical characters who desire and fret in turn, and who are imbued with searing intelligence and dolorous ambivalence.
Photo by Heather Sten
Lynne Tillman’s latest novel is Men and Apparitions. Her most recent book, MOTHERCARE, is an autobiographical essay on caregiving. Her essays and stories appear in Aperture, Bookforum, Frieze, n+1, Granta, Tank, and in art catalogues, artist books, and other magazines. Tillman has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and The Academy of Arts and Letters Katherine Anne Porter Prize for contributions to literature. She lives in New York with the bassist David Hofstra.
Christine Smallwood is the author of The Life of the Mind and La Captive. She is a senior editor at Harper's Magazine.