Thrilled to Death

Thrilled to Deathby Lynne Tillman published 25 September 2025 From the author of Weird Fucks, a new selection of stories about sex, death, memory, and anxiety Over the last four decades, Lynne Tillman has established herself as one of Americas most audacious writers, a tireless innovator whose shorter works have reimagined the story form. Thrilled to Death collects a bold, anarchic, and eclectic ensemble of Tillmans fictions. By turns outrageous and melancholy,

from protest bust cards to the works of Ursula K

‘The best fiction to read this year’

Le Guin – Mayer asks who gets to speak

But they carry with them all the upsets and resentments they have accrued in their unhappy lives to date

As she begins to study and transcribe the inherited notebooks and papers of her great-aunt

'Today the ideal home remains a site of illusory ease

“We are fortunate to have a mind like Schulman’s to help us wrestle with the many difficult dimensions of real-world solidarity

“A stylish

and of the time and labor spent navigating the American healthcare system

What do you expect from women

while searching for crafty ways through which we can collectively reclaim language for protest and pleasure

written as a song-scream against our nullifying need to belong