Tin House: Volume 15, Number 4

This issue of Tin House brings you all the thrilling, introspective, artful moments you've come to expect from this award-winning literary journal. Its pages are filled with deftly written prose and poetry that will keep you in your seat for hours at a time — perfect for those long summer days on the porch.

Fiction from:

Ken Calhoun, Jess Row, Joan Silber, Jamie Quatro, Antonio Tabucchi, Jonathan Lee

Nonfiction from:

Wayne Kostenbaum, Kent Russell

Poetry from:

Will Butler, Jen Levitt, Monica McClure, Morgan Parker, Nick Flynn, Mike McGriff, Matthew Rohrer

Lost and Founds:

Katie Arnold-Ratliff on Tess Slesinger

Heather Hartley on Sofia Loren's Cookbook

Shawn Vandor on Norman Mailer

Aaron Hamburger

Mesha Maren on Maryse Holder

This issue of Tin House brings you all the thrilling, introspective, artful moments you've come to expect from this award-winning literary journal. Its pages are filled with deftly written prose and poetry that will keep you in your seat for hours at a time — perfect for those long summer days on the porch.

Tin House's Summer Reading brings you all the things you've come to expect from the acclaimed literary journal. Packed with thrilling fiction, introspective essays, and artful poetry, this issue is guaranteed to keep you in your seat for hours at a time--perfect for those long summer days on the porch.

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.