Brief Interviews w/ Русский Men: Oleg Zobern
Now that we’ve settled on the proper cyrilic for the demonym “Russian,” we’ll continue with our series of short Q&A’s with the Rasskazy contributors. Today our interlocutor, Jeff Parker, is mostly made fun of by Oleg Zobern. Zobern is the author of Silent Jericho and Funeral Feast for Yann Volkers. His story “Bregovich’s Sixth Journey” [...]
Drill and Song Day, by Vladimir Kozlov
There’s one week until the release of Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia. Because I’m feeling charitable this morning, I’m posting an excerpt from the book–a short story by Vladimir Kozlov (translated by Andrea Gregovich with Mikhail Iossel). Enjoy.
Each year around the twenty-third of February, to celebrate the anniversary of the Red Army, we had [...]
Brief Interviews w/ Русский Men: Dmitry Danilov
On September 1st we’ll be celebrating the release of our new anthology Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia. In the meantime, Jeff Parker (who co-edited the book with Mikhail Iossel) will be posting brief interviews with some of the contributors. The first conversation is with Dmitry Danilov, author of Black and Green and House [...]
Genre Redux
The post I made last week, “To Genre or Not to Genre,” rankled a lot of readers. I have yet to decide whether this is a good thing.
It’s all given me a lot to consider. It’s the first time I’ve ever been in a position where my opinions have been held up for such wide [...]
Congrats to Jim Krusoe! And Persistence!
Jim Krusoe–our dear, dear friend and idol–has been shortlisted for the St. Francis College Literary Prize, an award for a fourth work of fiction.
The prize carries a $50,000 purse and the honor of being nominated alongside Aleksandar Hemon (who kindly endorsed Rasskazy, our forthcoming anthology of Russian Short Stories), Chris Abani (who was recently featured [...]
To Genre or not to Genre?
I recently received this question from one of our readers:
I have read several issues of Tin House, including the most recent. Two vegetarians go on a hunting trip . . . enough said. I feel that I have several pieces that would fit the magazine, however, I am struggling with just one thing. This question [...]
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, [...]
The Children’s Day: Discussion Questions
Michiel Heyns’ novel The Children’s Day is available now. Below are some discussion questions–for bookgroups, classrooms, or just your personal edification. If you have any thoughts or feelings, please post them below…
The novel’s title is derived from the Robert Graves poem “The Cool Web,” reprinted in the book. Discuss ways in which the poem might [...]
10 Years of Tin House: Backstage Pass, By D.A. Powell
If Aimee Bender’s story a couple posts down wasn’t enough to make you run out and purchase a copy of our tenth-anniversary issue, you may be on the wrong site…allow me to hyperlink you to somewhere more appropriate. Still, for those of you who prefer brilliance in verse as opposed to prose, might we whet [...]
