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Tin House Books
''Tin House'' is an American book publisher based in Portland, Oregon, and New York City. Portland publisher Win McCormack originally conceived the idea for a literary magazine called ''Tin House'' in the summer of 1998. He enlisted Holly MacArthur as managing editor and developed the magazine with the help of two experienced New York editors, Rob Spillman and Elissa Schappell. In 2005, ''Tin House'' expanded into the book division, Tin House Books. They also began to run a by-admission-only summer writers' workshop held at Reed College. In December 2018, ''Tin House'' announced that they were shuttering their literary magazine after 20 years to focus on their book releases and workshops. ''Tin House'' published fiction, essays, and poetry, as well as interviews with important literary figures, a "Lost and Found" section dedicated to exceptional and generally overlooked books, "Readable Feast" food writing features, and "Literary Pilgrimages", about visits to the homes of wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Win McCormack
Win McCormack is an American publisher and editor from Oregon. He is editor-in-chief of ''Tin House'' magazine and Tin House Books, the former publisher of ''Oregon Magazine'', founder and treasurer of MediAmerica, Inc., and a co-founder of ''Mother Jones'' magazine. He serves on the board of directors of the journal ''New Perspectives Quarterly''. His political and social writings have appeared in ''Oregon Humanities'', ''Tin House'', ''The Nation'', ''The Oregonian'', and ''Oregon Magazine''. McCormack's investigative coverage of the Rajneeshee movement was awarded a William Allen White Commendation from the University of Kansas and the City and Regional Magazine Association. As a political activist, McCormack served as Chair of the Oregon Steering Committee for Gary Hart's 1984 presidential campaign. He was chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon's President's Council and a member of the Obama for President Oregon Finance Committee. Additionally, McCormack sits on the Board ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane- Coeur d'Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington. His best-known book is '' The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven'' (1993), a collection of short stories. It was adapted as the film ''Smoke Signals'' (1998), for which he also wrote the screenplay. His first novel, ''Reservation Blues'', received a 1996 American Book Award. His first young adult novel, '' The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian'' (2007), is a semi-autobiographical novel that won the 2007 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Odyssey Award as best 2008 audiobook for young people (read by Alexie). His 2009 collection of short stories and poems, ''War Dances'', won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gay (author)
William Elbert Gay (October 27, 1941 February 23, 2012) was an American writer of novels, short stories and essays. Early life Gay was born in Hohenwald, Tennessee. After high school, Gay joined the United States Navy and served during the Vietnam War. After returning to the States, he lived in both New York City and Chicago before returning to Lewis County, Tennessee, where he lived from 1978 until his death. Even though he had been writing since the age of fifteen, Gay did not publish anything until 1998, when two of his short stories were accepted by literary magazines. Before then, Gay made his living as a carpenter, drywall hanger, and house painter. Career In 1999, Gay published his first novel, ''The Long Home''. Gay was recognized and marketed as "the real thing," a new Larry Brown. The novel won the 1999 James A. Michener Memorial Prize and sold well enough to start a bidding war for his second novel. ''Provinces of Night'' was published in late 2000 and confirm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ford
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel '' The Sportswriter'' and its sequels, '' Independence Day'', ''The Lay of the Land'' and ''Let Me Be Frank With You'', and the short story collection '' Rock Springs'', which contains several widely anthologized stories. Ford received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1996 for ''Independence Day''. Ford's novel ''Wildlife'' was adapted into a 2018 film of the same name. He won the 2018 Park Kyong-ni Prize. Early life Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, the only son of Parker Carrol and Edna Ford. Parker was a traveling salesman for Faultless Starch, a Kansas City company. Of his mother, Ford said, "Her ambition was to be, first, in love with my father and, second, to be a full-time mother." When Ford was eight years old, his father had a severe heart failure, and thereafter Ford spent as much time with his grandfather, a former prizefighter and hotel ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Faiz Ahmad ''Faiz'' (13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984; Urdu, Punjabi: فیض احمد فیض) was a Pakistani poet, and author of Urdu and Punjabi literature. Faiz was one of the most celebrated Pakistani Urdu writers of his time. Outside literature, he has been described as "a man of wide experience" having been a teacher, an army officer, a journalist, a trade unionist and a broadcaster. Born in Punjab, British India, Faiz studied at Government College and Oriental College, and went on to serve in the British Indian Army. After partition, Faiz joined the liberal english-daily ''Pakistan Times as'' editor. He was also leading member of the Communist Party before his arrest and imprisonment in 1951 for his alleged part in a conspiracy to overthrow the Liaquat administration and replace it with a left-wing, pro-Soviet government. Faiz was released after four years in prison and spent his time in Moscow and London, becoming a notable member of the Progressive Writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Dorfman
Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942) is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, since 1985. Background and education Dorfman was born in Buenos Aires on May 6, 1942, the son of Adolf Dorfman, who was born in Odessa (then Russian Empire) to a well-to-do Jewish family, and became a prominent Argentine professor of economics and the author of ''Historia de la Industria Argentina'', and Fanny Zelicovich Dorfman, who was born in Kishinev of Bessarabian Jewish descent. Shortly after his birth, they moved to the United States, where he spent his first ten years of childhood in New York until his family was forced to relocate due to political tensions. His family eventually settled in Chile in 1954. He attended and later worked as a professor at the University of Chile, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Corin
Lucy Corin is an American novelist and short story writer. The winner of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters John Guare Writer's Fund Rome Prize, Corin was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in 2015. Writing Her collection of short stories, ''One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses'', was published by McSweeney's in 2013. ''Bustle'' wrote: "Corin caters to our fascination with neuroses and habits, and by exaggerating aspects of our thought processes and societal quirks, she leaves us thinking deeply about parts of humanity we don't often examine under a magnifying glass." A review by Jonathan Deuel in the ''Los Angeles Review of Books'' read: "The dreamy, fairy-tale qualities and allegorical ambitions of these stories are tempered with sophistication and terror, making ''One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses'' ageless...I'm frightened by Corin. I'm dazzled by her writing." Corin's second novel, ''The Swank Hotel'', ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (born February 14, 1972) is a Chinese American writer. She previously taught writing and literature in the Graduate MFA Writing program at Otis College of Art and Design until 2015. Bynum is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. Her brother is musician Taylor Ho Bynum. Fairy tales are a common theme in many of her works. Bynum describes fairy tales by saying, "they always walk that line between wonder and darkness." ''Madeleine is Sleeping'' was published by Harcourt in 2004, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her short stories, including excerpts from her new novel, have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Triquarterly, The Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and in Best American Short Stories. Her second novel, ''Ms. Hempel Chronicles'', was published in September 2008 and was a finalist for the PEN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender (born June 28, 1969) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal stories and characters. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Biography Born to a Jewish family, Bender received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at San Diego, and a Master of Fine Arts from the creative writing MFA program at University of California at Irvine. While at UCI she studied with Judith Grossman and Geoffrey Wolff. She received ArtsBridge scholarships and worked with mentor Keith Fowler to create writing programs for K-12 students in Orange County, California. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Southern California where she served as Director of the USC PhD in Creative Writing & Literature from 2012 to 2015. In the past she taught a class in surrealist writing at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and was a senior artist at the non-profit theater workshop The Imagination Workshop, helping mentally ill and at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Baxter (author)
Charles Morley Baxter (born May 13, 1947) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. Biography Baxter was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to John and Mary Barber (Eaton) Baxter. He graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul in 1969. In 1974 he received his PhD in English from the University at Buffalo with a thesis on Djuna Barnes, Malcolm Lowry, and Nathanael West. Baxter taught high school in Pinconning, Michigan for a year before beginning his university teaching career at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He then moved to the University of Michigan, where for many years he directed the Creative Writing MFA program. He was a visiting professor of creative writing at the University of Iowa and at Stanford. He taught at the University of Minnesota and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He retired in 2020. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985. He received the PEN/Malamud Award in 2021 for Excellence in the Short Story. He m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Barbash
Tom Barbash is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction, as well as an educator and critic. He is the author of the novel ''The Last Good Chance,'' a collection of short stories ''Stay Up With Me,'' and the bestselling nonfiction work ''On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal''. His fiction has been published in ''Tin House'', ''Story'' magazine, ''The Virginia Quarterly Review'' and ''The Indiana Review''. His criticism has appeared in the ''New York Times'' and the ''San Francisco Chronicle''. A well-regarded speaker, panelist, and interviewer, Barbash has served as host for onstage events for The Commonwealth Club, Litquake, BookPassage, and the Lannan Foundation, and his interview subjects have included ''Kazuo Ishiguro'', '' Brett Easton Ellis'', ''Jonathan Franzen'', '' Carlos Ruiz Zafon'', ''James Ellroy'', '' Ann Packer'', ''Mary Gaitskill'', and '' Chuck Palahniuk''. He taught at Stanford University, where he was a S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Aronson
Rebecca Aronson is an American poet. She worked as an assistant professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University (NWMSU) located in Maryville, Missouri, until 2008, when she moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Author Aronson is the author of ''Creature, Creature''. This was her first book of poetry, and was the winner of the 2007 Main-Traveled Roads Poetry Prize. Her poems have also appeared in journals such as ''Quarterly West'', ''Tin House ''Tin House'' is an American book publisher based in Portland, Oregon, and New York City. Portland publisher Win McCormack originally conceived the idea for a literary magazine called ''Tin House'' in the summer of 1998. He enlisted Holly MacArt ...'', '' Cimarron Review'', '' The Seattle Review'', ''Puerto del Sol'', ''The Rio Grande Review'', and others. Her book was also the winner of the Main-Traveled Roads Press poetry contest . Aronson is a contributing editor to ''The Laurel Review''. She also served as co-editor of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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