Tin House Magazine, Volume 20, Issue 2, Winter 2018: #78 Winter Reading

Tin House #78

by Win McCormack (Editor), Rob Spillman (Editor), Kate Christensen

We are also delighted to give you, along with the insightful interview, an excerpt from Vila-Matas’s new novel, Mac’s Problem. And, as always, it is a special thrill to discover a fresh voice like Dantiel Moniz, whose short story “Outside the Raft” not only crackles with youthful energy, but also contains the deep wisdom of someone way beyond her years. A new, yet old approach is taken by Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison, whose “Post-Op Letters in the Field Between Us” are poems as correspondence after a particularly destabilizing event as Nevison writes, “I know there’s no going back.” So let us go then, you and I, into the weirdness.

224 pages, Magazine

Published January 1, 2018

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

[Janine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tin House is my favorite literary magazine and I am sure going to miss it once it ceases publication this year. Consistently diverse, unique, and full of great writers I’ve yet to encounter, Tin House is a publication I can’t help but read from cover to cover. The interview with Vila-Matas in this issue was exquisite.

[James Winter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a great, comprehensive issue. Excellent collection of stories, essays, and poems.

[Jane · Rating 3 out of 5]

The beginning was amazing and I was like wow 5 stars and then the second half sucked. Sigh.

[Cayce Osborne · Rating 4 out of 5]

The standout for me was The Gift by Olivia Parkes, and I also enjoyed The Hook Up by Katherine Heiny.