Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader

by Win McCormack (Editor), Dorothy Allison (Contributor), Amy Hempel (Contributor)

From the award-winning literary magazine Tin House comes an indispensable collection of established and emerging fiction stars.

In just four short years Tin House has established itself as the most eclectic, exciting, and popular literary magazine in America today-writings from its pages have already been honored in Best American Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Bestial Noise is the first collection of Tin House fiction, showcasing today's masters of the short form-David Foster Wallace, Amy Hempel, Mary Gaitskill, Ron Carlson, Jim Shepard, Helen Schulman, Jonathan Lethem, and Lydia Davis, along with Tin House discoveries David Schickler, Nancy Reisman, and Julie Benesh. These extraordinary, vital stories are a primer for the current state of cutting-edge fiction and confirm why the Village Voice declared that ' Tin House may very well represent the future of literary magazines.'

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies

382 pages, Paperback

First published April 3, 2003

About the author

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, and founder and treasurer of MediAmerica, Inc. 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. His latest book, You Don’t Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values, examines the sex scandals of Republican politicians who espouse "moral values."

As a political activist, McCormack served as Chair of the Oregon Steering Committee for Gary Hart's 1984 presidential campaign. He is chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon's President's Council and a member of the Obama for President Oregon Finance Committee. McCormack was also chosen as Alternate Delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention. He currently serves on the Oregon Council for the Humanities and the Oregon Tourism Commission. Additionally, McCormack sits on the Board of Overseers for Emerson College, and is a co-founder of the Los Angeles-based Liberty Hill Foundation

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very good anthology, full of solid literary fiction. Most of the stories in here are as good as anything that turns up in the year's best anthologies. There are a few stories that were misses for me, but many more were engaging and thought-provoking. Among writers I'm familiar with, I thought both the Jonathan Lethem story and the Dorothy Allison were excellent. Writers who I hadn't read whose stories in here may make me seek out more included David Schickler, Nancy Reisman, Dylan Landis, Tom Barbash, Chris Offutt, Emily Ishem Raboteau, Max Ludington, David Leavitt, Michael Lowenthal, Ron Carlson, and Kevin Canty. And my list grows ever longer...

[Michael Lortz · Rating 2 out of 5]

Didn't finish. I remember there being something off with these stories. I put it down and never picked it back up.