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Lynne Tillman 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. Tillman is the author of five novels, three collections of short stories, one collection of essays, and two other nonfiction books.
Tillman's novels include No Lease on Life, Cast in Doubt, Motion Sickness, and Haunted Houses.
Absence Makes the Heart is Tillman's first collection of short stories. The Broad Picture is a collection of Tillman's essays, which were published originally in literary and art periodicals. In 1995, Tillman's nonfiction work, The Velvet Years: Warhol's Factory 1965-1967, was published with photographs by Stephen Shore; it presented 18 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., a cultural and social history of a literary landmark where writers and artists congregated for nearly 20 years.
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