| Tin House Magazine: Hope: Vol. 11, No. 1 2009, Fall Edition Contributor(s): McCormack, Win (Editor), Spillman, Rob (Editor), Montgomery, Lee (Editor) |
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ISBN: 098205422X ISBN-13: 9780982054222 Publisher: Tin House Magazine OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2009 Annotation: Tin House Magazine is a beautifully designed periodical featuring the best writers of our time alongside a new generation of talent who are poised to become the most important voices of the future. The Fall 2009 issue has a theme of "Hope and Fear," and Tin House has put together a collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that addresses the global tipping point--economically, culturally, and environmentally. Always searching for singular voices, the editors of this issue were particularly interested in are personal visions, either optimistic or pessimistic. Content includes short stories, profiles, author interviews, essays, and reviews of overlooked or underrated books and "Blithe Spirits" and "Readable Feast," which present tales and recipes for drinks and food in a literary way. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Tin House |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 7.04" W x 9.02" (1.01 lbs) 224 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Tin House Magazine is a beautifully designed periodical featuring the best writers of our time alongside a new generation of talent who are poised to become the most important voices of the future. The Fall 2009 issue has a theme of "Hope and Fear," and Tin House has put together a collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that addresses the global tipping pointeconomically, culturally, and environmentally. Always searching for singular voices, the editors of this issue were particularly interested in are personal visions, either optimistic or pessimistic. Content includes short stories, profiles, author interviews, essays, and reviews of overlooked or underrated books and "Blithe Spirits" and "Readable Feast," which present tales and recipes for drinks and food in a literary way." |
Contributor Bio(s): Wildgen, Michelle: - Michelle Wildgen is the author of the novel You're Not You (St. Martin's/Dunne). She is a senior editor at Tin House magazine, where she edits the Readable Feast and Blithe Spirits departments, and an editor at Tin House Books. Her writing has appeared in Best New American Voices 2004, Best Food Writing 2004, the anthology Death by Pad Thai, the journals StoryQuarterly, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Small Spiral Notebook, and elsewhere.McCormack, Win: - Win McCormack is publisher and editor-in-chief of Tin House magazine. He has been in the magazine and book publishing business since 1976. He published Oregon Magazine from 1976 to 1988, and has also been involved in publishing Oregon Business, Oregon Home, Travel Oregon, Military History Quarterly, and Art and Auction magazines, and was involved in the start-up of Mother Jones. He is editor of the books Profiles of Oregon, Great Moments in Oregon History, and The Rajneesh Chronicles, and won a William Allen White award for his investigative coverage of the Rajneesh cult from 1982-1986. He writes on politics and wrote the article "Deconstructing the Election: Foucault, Derrida and GOP strategy," about the presidential election debacle in Florida in 2000, for the Nation. He holds a BA in Government from Harvard College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon.MacArthur, Holly: - Holly MacArthur lives in Portland, OR.Spillman, Rob: - Rob Spillman is editor of Tin House magazine and executive editor of Tin House Books. He was previously the monthly book columnist for Details magazine and is a contributor of book reviews and essays to Salon and Bookforum. He has written for the Baltimore Sun, the Boston Review, British GQ, Connoisseur, Details, Nerve, the New York Times Book Review, Premiere, Rolling Stone, Spin, Sports Illustrated, SPY, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Worth, among other magazines, newspapers, and online magazines. He has also worked for Random House, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker. |