Call It Whatever The @*#& You Want!
Keith Lee Morris’s new collection CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT will be popping up at your local bookstore/preferred internet retailer this week. Keith has been kind enough to give our readers a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into choosing a title, or lack thereof:
Let’s talk about what a pain in the butt it is to [...]
Good Night, and Good Luck (Not Stabbing Your Toe)
Kind of like an author appearing on Oprah today (if she were a chain smoker). Edward R. Murrow talks to Robert Paul Smith about HOW TO DO NOTHING WITH NOBODY ALL ALONE BY YOURSELF, his classic 1950’s compendium of cool stuff for kids to do. If you want to be the favorite parent, or aunt, [...]
Spaceman, Pancakes, Beer, and Steak
Tin House’s Games People Play issue hits stands this week, just in time for baseball’s spring training. Among new fiction by Jennifer Egan, poetry from Matthew Zapruder, and essays by Tom Bissell and Karen Russell, writer Brian James Barr unearths the memoirs of Bill “The Spaceman” Lee, a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and [...]
Barry Hannah, 1942-2010
One of our great writers, Barry Hannah, died yesterday at age 67. Tin House had the privilege of publishing an interview last summer, conducted by Tom Franklin. They discussed Hannah’s vast body of work, his illness, fishing, and firearms. At one point, Franklin asked if shooting, a hobby of Hannah’s, got him closer to his [...]
