A Publishers Weekly Editors' Pick
Vulture, A Most Anticipated Book of the Year
Literary Hub, A Most Anticipated Book of the Year
"[Tillman] writes fiction that’s formally innovative but unpretentious, inherently political, and unmistakably of our time." —Emma Alpern, A Vulture Most Anticipated Book of the Year
"Tillman is also an extraordinarily acute essayist and memoirist . . . as well as a novelist of wild formal and argumentative ambition. But her stories seem to best foreground certain aspects of her writing: a determined oddity of address to the reader, a playful but pitiless application of ideas, and a comedy that might be most astringent over the space and time of this shorter form . . . An incomparable writer about the entanglements of kinship and romance, these unnatural states traversed by culture and the intrusion of mundanity . . . Among the joys of Tillman’s work: the fact we can never decide or choose between her teeming ideas or knowing citations, her formal adventures, and an emotional depth that is unafraid to approach something like wisdom." —Brian Dillon, 4Columns
"Tillman is one of my favorite writers, mostly for the ways her stories animate a social milieu—usually some iteration of East Village bohemians—and commit to big ideas, be they about art or literature or self-invention. This career-spanning collection showcases her at her best and wittiest." —David Varno, A Publishers Weekly Editors' Pick
"This shimmering, career-spanning collection captures Tillman at her most beguiling, playful, and inventive . . . Tillman is infinitely playful and a master at concision, able to unspool both ordinary and epic tragedies in just a few pages. This is Tillman’s best book yet." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Tillman delights in exploring the limits of what’s possible within the short story form. The answer, it appears, is absolutely anything. A rich selection of stories spanning Tillman’s singular career." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Of course, it would be this way, that the stories Lynne Tillman has bestowed all these years now record a kind of cyclone of sensations: the public and private affairs and catastrophes, the art and music we pulled close to us in order to survive, the city streets on fire with human noises and glances, the exhausting joy and delirious loneliness of living through it all. What a superb compendium of voices she’s given us.” —Jonathan Lethem
"There’s a lot of sex in a lot of places in Lynne Tillman’s suggestive stories: Someone will love you. Dirty dishes rebuke. Mother knits. Lily Lee didn’t leave Frank at the altar. Tillman’s way with words—unexpected but exact—is stupendous. Totally stupendous." —Nell Painter, author of Old in Art School and I Just Keep Talking
