The Winter issue of Tin House is probably, by now, on the coffee table of your smartest and most cultured friend. I suggest you invite yourself over, request a hot toddy, and spend the evening in front of their fire reading the new Ben Marcus story, poetry from Michael Dickman and Dorianne Laux, and Heather [...]
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 [...]
An Excerpt from our new anthology, THE STORY ABOUT THE STORY, which hits bookshelves today.
Human credulity is indeed wonderful. There may be good reasons for believing in a King or a Judge or a Lord Mayor. When we see them go sweeping by in their robes and their wigs, with their heralds and their outriders, our [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
