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Tin House #80
Tin House Magazine, Volume 20, Issue 4, Summer 2019: #80 20th Anniversary Final Issue
After two decades of publication, Tin House releases The Final Issue, featuring new stories, poems, and essays by Tin House writers from throughout our twenty-year history.
“Twenty years ago I believed that stories, poems, and essays could build bridges and save lives. I still believe this. Thank you for sharing the dream with us. I can’t wait to read what you write next.”
“Twenty years ago I believed that stories, poems, and essays could build bridges and save lives. I still believe this. Thank you for sharing the dream with us. I can’t wait to read what you write next.”
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Published June 1, 2019
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About the author
Win McCormack
99 books10 followersWin 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
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
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November 24, 2020
I managed to subscribe to Tin House just in time to get a couple of issues before it went out of business. Since my reading lags behind arrival by quite a lot, I skipped ahead to The Final Issue.
There seem to be a couple of reprints in this volume, which is a bit of a cheat. Notably the opening story, by Karen Russell, is from her recent collection Orange World and Other Stories. I get wanting to have a Karen Russell story, but...
Many of the pieces, especially the fiction, are slipstream surreal, or slipstream speculative in nature, though they tend to have the typical Literary endings (status quo, or vague, or downbeat). On an individual basis such things are fine, but you don't want to read several of them in quick succession, or you begin to feel like you're being scammed. So, I suggest stretching out the reading, as I did.
There are brief memoirs of 1999, but no clear explanation of why (except that it was the year Tin House began). Some are quite clever. I found the poetry interesting and generally strong. I have special affection for Alison Pelegrin's "My Snatch Is Pretty Good".
Ginger Strand's "Applejacking" is an amusing memoir of making cider from stolen apples. I assume this presages the literary community's return to Vikingoid piracy as a way of life, given the sad state of publication. Roving bands of critique partners and militias of out-of-work critics are the coming plague.
An excellent issue.
There seem to be a couple of reprints in this volume, which is a bit of a cheat. Notably the opening story, by Karen Russell, is from her recent collection Orange World and Other Stories. I get wanting to have a Karen Russell story, but...
Many of the pieces, especially the fiction, are slipstream surreal, or slipstream speculative in nature, though they tend to have the typical Literary endings (status quo, or vague, or downbeat). On an individual basis such things are fine, but you don't want to read several of them in quick succession, or you begin to feel like you're being scammed. So, I suggest stretching out the reading, as I did.
There are brief memoirs of 1999, but no clear explanation of why (except that it was the year Tin House began). Some are quite clever. I found the poetry interesting and generally strong. I have special affection for Alison Pelegrin's "My Snatch Is Pretty Good".
Ginger Strand's "Applejacking" is an amusing memoir of making cider from stolen apples. I assume this presages the literary community's return to Vikingoid piracy as a way of life, given the sad state of publication. Roving bands of critique partners and militias of out-of-work critics are the coming plague.
An excellent issue.
May 25, 2020
Contains moving poetry, curious fiction, and great essays. Not everything is a total winner, but a robust and meaty volume to conclude the magazine.
September 16, 2019
Great final edition. Loved the 1990s essays and a few of the fiction pieces were exceptionally memorable, especially those with a dystopian bent.
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