LOST & FOUND: On David Halberstam’s The Breaks of The Game
I wrote this Lost & Found piece for our “Games People Play” theme issue (on newsstands now!) right on the brink of the season. The playoffs start this weekend, and if you followed the NBA this year, you’ll know life hasn’t gotten any easier. (If you’re not familiar with my agony, please scroll down for [...]
Paige Williams’ “Radiohead-style” Journalism
When writer Paige Williams wrote a feature on Dolly Freed, author of the cult classic Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and With (almost) No Money, she agreed (as we did when she agreed to let us re-issue the book) not to reveal the writer’s real name. In the book, Dolly encourages [...]
Staff Picks: Best of the Decade, Debut Novels
Brian DeLeeuw, assistant editor at the magazine, has published his own debut novel this year. He’s been kind enough to weigh in on his favorites.
Obviously, five “best” is a bit of a misnomer, since I don’t claim to have read even a fraction of all the no-doubt excellent debut novels published in the ’00s. [...]
Staff Picks: Best of the Decade, NYRB Classics
Lance Cleland, our shiny new Assistant Workshop Director and Editorial Assistant, has contributed a list of his favorite re-issues from the New York Review of Books Classics Series. Look for more posts from Cleland in the new year, ’cause he’s the FNG, and FNGs have to do whatever you tell them to.
I had taken [...]
Staff Picks: Best of the Decade, Books in Translation
Editor Rob Spillman weighs in on his five favorite translations from the past ten years:
WAR AND PEACE, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
The great novel of the Napoleon excursion into Russia is brought to all its glory by the veteran translators who have been methodically slashing their way through the Russian classics. [...]
Staff Picks: Best of the Decade, New York Art-Show Catalogues
Janet Parker, our beloved art director, spent the better part of the decade in New York before joining us in the Portland office last year. She’s taken a few minutes out her 26-hour workday to weigh in on her favorite NY art shows of the last 10 years, and their corresponding catalogues.
Glitter and Doom show at [...]
Staff Picks: Best of the Decade, Book Club Selections
Continuing with our Best-of-the-Decade top 5 lists, Director of Publicity Deborah Jayne shares the books that sparked the best conversations in her book group.
I chose these books based on the quality of discussion that they lead to as book group books–I read each of them over the last ten years in a now sadly defunct [...]
Staff Picks: Best of the Decade, Essay Collections
As 00’s wrap up, and we move toward those difficult adolescent years of the new century, we’d like to take a moment to look back on the decade that was. In the coming weeks, Tin House staffers will compile lists of their favorite books published over the last ten years. Too avoid repetition, I’ve asked [...]
Tin House Writer’s Series
That writer in your life doesn’t need another Moleskin notebook . . . you got her one last year and she’ll be getting two more in her stocking. Not to worry, Tin House has put together a handsome collection of books for people just like her. With instruction on craft and insight into the lives [...]
10 Years of Tin House
We’ll be posting a recap of our whirlwind Writer’s Workshop week soon, but in the meantime, Literary Arts has posted audio excerpts of our Ten-Year Anniversary celebration. If you weren’t able to make it to the Newmark, or if you’d like to relive the experience, click through to hear Steve Almond’s deconstruction of Toto and [...]
Tin House, Belatedly and Delicately, Enters the Blogosphere
In 2009, starting a weblog is hardly cutting edge—in fact, maybe anything over 140 characters is passé (we do that thing too . . . see the left-hand column). Our office is teeming with luddites, some oblivious to new technology, some fearful, some hesitantly getting their feet wet. For the last ten years, our focus [...]
