Synopses & Reviews
Review
"As everything goes increasingly haywire in our politics and in our world, we stand in ever-increasing need of the emotional and ethical education that great literary magazines can provide. And in what other forum than Tin House can you find William Gass, Steven Millhauser, Karen Russell and Stuart Dybek - or Anne Carson, Alice Munro, Amy Hempel, and Sherman Alexie - all in the same issue? And combined with essays on Raymond Chandler, or Fat City, or trauma? With each issue you finish, youre more awake, erudite, socially aware, and alert to exciting new writers. What more do you want between two covers, anyway?" - Jim Shepard
Synopsis
You won't have to search for excuses to stay in this winter. With engaging prose, poetry, and interviews from established writers you love and new voices you're bound to fall in love with, this issue of Tin House is brimming with literature that ignites your imagination and provokes your senses.
About the Author
Win McCormack is publisher and editor-in-chief of Tin House magazine. He has been in the magazine and book publishing business since 1976. He published Oregon Magazine from 1976 to 1988, and has also been involved in publishing Oregon Business, Oregon Home, Travel Oregon, Military History Quarterly, and Art and Auction magazines, and was involved in the start-up of Mother Jones. He is editor of the books Profiles of Oregon, Great Moments in Oregon History, and The Rajneesh Chronicles, and won a William Allen White award for his investigative coverage of the Rajneesh cult from 1982-1986. He writes on politics and wrote the article "Deconstructing the Election: Foucault, Derrida and GOP strategy," about the presidential election debacle in Florida in 2000, for the Nation. He holds a BA in Government from Harvard College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon.Rob Spillman is editor of Tin House magazine and executive editor of Tin House Books. He was previously the monthly book columnist for Details magazine and is a contributor of book reviews and essays to Salon and Bookforum. He has written for the Baltimore Sun, the Boston Review, British GQ, Connoisseur, Details, Nerve, the New York Times Book Review, Premiere, Rolling Stone, Spin, Sports Illustrated, SPY, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Worth, among other magazines, newspapers, and online magazines. He has also worked for Random House, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker.Holly MacArthur lives in Portland, OR.