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Author Archives: Cheston

Up and coming story writer Seth Fried made this after hearing we’ll be publishing a story of his in the Spring.

Expect more of this kind of thing from us in the future. Maybe even audio samples from “Bad Dudes” or “RBI:Baseball.”

Curtis White: A Good Without Light

Curtis White’s intelligence, colored by righteous indignation, is a slippery and protean thing. He’s tackled Liberalism and contemporary Art Culture and in his newest book, The Barbaric Heart, he examines the hidden ills of the environmental movement. We were fortunate enough to publish an excerpt of it in the “Dread” half of Issue #41, called [...]

Steve Almond Tackles Toto

During the 10th Anniversary celebration, Steve Almond revealed the utter inanity of the song “Africa,” by the band Toto. The take down turned poignant, though, in the end, but had us all in stitches.
Beware: this song will be stuck in your head for the rest of the afternoon!

And be sure to check out Steve’s story [...]

Tenth Anniversary!

How appropriate is it that tin is the traditional metal used to commemorate a 10th Anniversary? I’ll tell you precisely how appropriate: very. From the first issue to the 40th, we’ve been lucky enough to publish some of our country’s finest writers, both established and emerging. And in order to celebrate our past good fortune [...]

Tin House Workshop 2009

Bear witness as we jactitate: The 7th Annual Tin House Summer Writers Workshop was an overwhelming success! Led by another stellar faculty, including Dorothy Allison, Jim Shepard, Aimee Bender, Anthony Doerr, Walter Kirn among many others, participants were treated to an intensely fruitful workshop experience, not to mention fascinating seminars and panels on beginnings, endings, [...]