Excerpt: THE CHILDREN’S DAY
Michiel Heyns’ The Children’s Day is the second of our international series (you may have seen our first, When I Forgot, on the cover of the New York Times Book Review). We couldn’t be more excited to bring this novel to readers in the U.S. It’s a coming-of-age story set in apartheid South Africa, narrated [...]
Summer Reading Recommendations: Brian DeLeeuw
As we continue with our Summer Reading Recommendations, we’ll turn inward to share what some of our editors are taking on vacation or using to fan themselves on the subway. Today’s selection comes from Brian DeLeeuw, Assistant Editor at the magazine and author of the novel In This Way I Was Saved.
Exotic locales, conspicuous consumption, [...]
10 Years of Tin House: Americca, by Aimee Bender
My sincere condolences to those of you who missed the Tin House 10th anniversary party at the Newmark here in Portland a couple weeks ago. Colson Whitehead emceed and availed himself of the opportunity to share some new poetry, a very special treat indeed, while Steve Almond harkened us all back to that special night [...]
Summer Reading Recommendations: J.C. Hallman
Over the next couple months, some of our authors and editors will be offering up their suggestions of what books you should be reading this summer. From all available research, sand and sunshine do not make the Twilight series any better. J.C. Hallman is the author, most recently, of The Hospital for Bad Poets: Stories. [...]
Recreate or Re-Create: Creativity and Translation
I have just sent off the first draft of a translation of a 130,000-word novel, Etienne van Heerden’s 30 Nagte in Amsterdam (30 Nights in Amsterdam). By chance, on the same day, I receive a Call for Papers from the University of Swansea in the UK for a conference on “The Author-Translator in the European [...]
Summer Reading Recommendations: Jim Krusoe
Over the next couple months, some of our authors and editors will be offering up their suggestions of what books you should be reading this summer. From all available research, sand and sunshine do not make the Twilight series any better. Today’s selection comes from Jim Krusoe, the author of, most recently, the novel Erased.
In [...]
That Whole Climate-of-Fear Thing Continues to Make Life Less Fun
So, a few days ago, I posted this excerpt from an e-mail a fan sent me online (under the heading Most Disturbing Review Yet):
“In my dream of dreams, I’d order copies to teach in my creative nonfiction classes and/or my pop culture classes, but I have a feeling the provost would bitch-slap me if I did that. These [...]
Summer Reading Recommendations: Karen Lee Boren
Over the next couple months, some of our authors and editors will be offering up their suggestions of what books you should be reading this summer. From all available research, sand and sunshine do not make the Twilight series any better. (NOTE: It’s yet to be determined whether the same holds true for Storytelling by [...]
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 [...]
Summer Reading Recommendations: Michiel Heyns
Over the next couple months, some of our authors and editors will be offering up their suggestions of what books you should be reading this summer. From all available research, sand and sunshine doesn’t make the Twilight series any better. Today’s selection comes from Michiel Heyns, the South African writer and translator who’s novel The [...]
Notes from the Book Tour
On the way home from book tour dates 3 through 5 of at least fourteen. An ingenious system of Chinese people has delivered us into a needle-nosed jet headed from SF back to Los Angeles. Mandy caught a cold somewhere along the line so, next to me, the most beautiful woman in the world is [...]
Summer Reading Recommendations: Lucy Corin
Over the next couple months, some of our authors and editors will be offering up their suggestions of what books you should be reading this summer. From all available research, sand and sunshine doesn’t make the Twilight series any better. Today’s selection comes from Lucy Corin, author of The Entire Predicament, a collection of stories, [...]
The Scene of the Crime
The reason I was heading to Cleveland, the place I’d grown up but hadn’t seen since I left for college, was to promote my novel, Erased. After all, the book’s about a guy who goes to Cleveland because he gets a postcard from his dead mother, a transcriber, and I myself had been transcribed, in [...]
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 [...]
