Win Mccormack

Tin House: Tenth Anniversary Issue Win Mccormack

Publisher Marketing: Who says summer reading means a lurid potboiler or sleazy celeb tell-all? Not Tin House. Renowned for its beautiful design as well as its compelling content, the award-winning Tin House is a multisensory delight, as popular with critics as it is with readers. Each issue features the best writers of the day alongside a new generation of talent who are poised to become the most important voices of the future. Its summer issue offers an eclectic collection of short stories, profiles, author interviews, poetry, and essays, as well as unique departments such as Lost and Found, 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. Breezy, sunny, funny, and always thought-provoking, Tin House Summer Reading 2009 is beach reading for the smart set. Contributor Bio:  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. Contributor Bio:  Spillman, Rob ROB SPILLMAN is editor of the literary magazine" Tin House," executive editor of Tin House Books, and the founder of the Tin House Literary Festival, now in its fifth year. His writing has appeared in" Vanity Fair,"" Spin, "the" New York Times Book Review,"" Bookforum," and many other publications, and he also writes a literary blog for the" Huffington Post." He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Contributor Bio:  Montgomery, Lee Lee Montgomery is the editorial director of Tin House Books and executive editor of "Tin House", a literary magazine. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including "Story Magazine", "Black Clock", "Denver Quarterly", and "The Iowa Review". She lives in Portland, Oregon. Contributor Bio:  Wildgen, Michelle Michelle Wildgen is a senior editor at the literary quarterly" Tin House." She earned an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence and has received a scholarship to Bread Loaf and a residency at Hall Farm Center for Arts and Education in Vermont. Her work has appeared in venues including" Best New American Voices 2004, Best Food Writing 2004, StoryQuarterly," and" TriQuarterly." The story on which this novel is based appeared in" Prairie Schooner," where it won the 2004 Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing. Contributor Bio:  Baxter, Charles Charles Baxter lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota. Contributor Bio:  Bender, Aimee Aimee Bender lives in Los Angeles. Her stories have appeared in "Granta," "GQ," "Harper's," "Fence," "Tin House," "Paris Review," and several other publications. She is the author of collection "The Girl in the Flammable Skirt" and "An Invisible Sign of My Own," her first novel. Contributor Bio:  Shepard, Jim Jim Shepard is the author of numerous novels and short stories, including the collections Like You'd Understand, Anyway; Love and Hydrogen; and Batting Against Castro, as well as the novels Project X and Nosferatu. He has won the Story Prize and been nominated for the National Book Award. He lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Williams College. Contributor Bio:  Allison, Dorothy Dorothy Allison describes herself as a feminist, a working-class story teller, a Southern expatriate, a sometime poet and a happily born-again Californian. Awarded the 2007 Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction, Allison is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Allison's short story collection, Trash (1988) was published by Firebrand Books. Trash won two Lambda Literary Awards and the American Library Association Prize for Lesbian and Gay Writing. Allison's novel Bastard Out of Carolina, (1992) was a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award. The novel won the Ferro Grumley prize, an ALA Award for Lesbian and Gay Writing, became a best seller, and an award-winning movie. Cavedweller (1998) became a national bestseller, New York Times Notable book of the year, finalist for the Lillian Smith prize, and an ALA prizewinner. Contributor Bio:  Hempel, Amy Amy Hempel is the author of "Tumble Home, Reasons to Live, " and "At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, " and the coeditor of "Unleashed." Her stories have appeared in "Elle, GQ, Harper's, Playboy, The Quarterly, " and "Vanity Fair." She teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Bennington College and lives in New York City.