Tin House

{{short description|American literary magazine and book publisher}}

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Tin House is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland, Oregon, and New York City.

History

Portland publisher Win McCormack originally conceived the idea for a literary magazine called Tin House in the summer of 1998.{{cite web|title=Top 50 Literary Magazine|url=http://www.everywritersresource.com/topliterarymagazines.html|work=EWR|access-date=August 17, 2015}} 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.{{cite news|last=McGrath|first= Charles|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/weekinreview/06mcgr.html?scp=14&sq=%22Tin%20House%22&st=cse |title=Does the Paris Review Get a Second Act?"]|newspaper=The New York Times|date= February 6, 2005}}

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.{{cite news|last=Greenfield|first= Beth|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/travel/escapes/04Ahead.html?scp=3&sq=%22Tin%20House%22&st=cse |title=Where Words Go to Work and Play|newspaper=The New York Times|date= May 4, 2007}}{{Infobox magazine

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| frequency = Quarterly

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| based = Brooklyn, New York and Portland, Oregon

| language = English

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Tin House was honored by major American literary awards and anthologies, particularly for its fiction. A story from the Summer 2003 issue, "Breasts" by Stuart Dybek, was featured in The Best American Short Stories for 2004,Moore, Lorrie (ed.), [https://www.amazon.com/Best-American-Short-Stories-2004/dp/0618197354 The Best American Short Stories 2004], Houghton Mifflin, 2004. and in 2006, "Window" by Deborah Eisenberg was a "juror favorite" in The O. Henry Prize Stories.Furman, Laura. [http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400095391&view=toc The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006.] Anchor: May 2006.

In December 2018, Tin House announced that they were shuttering their literary magazine after 20 years, in order to focus on their book releases and workshops.{{cite web |last1=Baer |first1=April |title=Tin House Publishing To End Print Magazine In 2019 |url=https://www.opb.org/news/article/tin-house-publishing-printed-magazine-ending/|date=December 13, 2018 |access-date=January 29, 2019}} The magazine was closed after the release of its June 2019 20th-anniversary issue.{{cite web |date=December 13, 2018 |title=On the Closing of Tin House Magazine |url=https://tinhouse.com/on-the-closing-of-tin-house-magazine/|first=Win |last=McCormack|author2=Rob Spillman |access-date=December 20, 2018 |website=Tin House}}

In March 2025, Tin House Books was acquired by Zando.{{Cite web |last=Milliot {{!}} |first=Jim |title=Zando Acquires Tin House |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/industry-deals/article/97298-zando-acquires-tin-house.html |access-date=2025-03-21 |website=PublishersWeekly.com |language=en}}

Content

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 writing greats. It was also distinguished from many other notable literary magazines by actively seeking work from previously unpublished writers to feature as "New Voices".{{cite web |last=Cotts |first=Cynthia |date=June 22, 1999 |title=Tin Meisters |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/1999-06-22/news/tin-meisters/ |magazine=The Village Voice}}

Staff

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief: Win McCormack
Editor: Rob Spillman
Art Director: Diane Chonette
Deputy Publisher: Holly Macarthur
Managing Editor: Cheston Knapp
Executive Editor: Michelle Wildgen
Senior Editor: Emma Komlos-Hrobsky
Editor-at-Large: Elissa Schappell
Associate Editor: Thomas Ross
Poetry Editor: Camille T. Dungy
Senior Designer: [http://www.jakobvala.com Jakob Vala]
Paris Editor: Heather HartleyTin House. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118014403/http://www.tinhouse.com/about-us/staff.html |title=Staff|website=Tin House|date=January 18, 2012 }}
Copy Editors: Meg Storey and Jess Kibler

Writers whose work has appeared in ''Tin House''

William Keohane
Stephen King
Phil Klay
Stanley Kunitz
Kelly Le Fave
Jonathan Lethem
Kelly Link
Patricia Lockwood
Rick Moody
Alice MunroSee also List of short stories by Alice Munro.
Pablo Neruda
Sharon Olds

Tin House Books

=Staff=

Senior Editor: Masie Cochran
Senior Editor: Tony Perez
Assistant Editor: Elizabeth DeMeo
Director of Marketing & Rights: Nanci McCloskey
Director of Publicity: Molly Templeton
Publicity and Marketing Assistant: Yashwina Canter
Art Director: Diane Chonette
Senior Designer: [http://www.jakobvala.com Jakob Vala]
Designer: Jeremy Cruz

=Books published=

Best of Tin House (2006). {{ISBN|0-9773127-1-2}}
Do Me: Tales of Sex and Love from Tin House (2007). {{ISBN|978-0-9794198-0-5}}
Food and Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast (2006). {{ISBN|0-9773127-7-1}}
The World Within (2007). {{ISBN|978-0-9776989-6-7}}
Arnold-Ratliff, Katie. Bright Before Us (2011). {{ISBN|978-1-935639-07-7}}
Becker, Geoffrey. Hot Springs (2010). {{ISBN|978-0-9820539-4-2}}
Beha, Christopher. What Happened to Sophie Wilder (2012). 978-1935639312
Bogan, Louis, trans. and ed. The Journal of Jules Renard (2008). {{ISBN|978-0-9794198-7-4}}
Boren, Karen Lee. Girls in Peril (2006). {{ISBN|978-0-9773127-2-6}}
Braver, Adam. "November 22, 1963" (2008). {{ISBN|978-0-9802436-2-8}}
Corin, Lucy. The Entire Predicament (2007). {{ISBN|978-0-9776989-8-1}}
DeVoto, Bernard. The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto (2010). {{ISBN|978-0-9825048-0-2}}
Erens, Pamela. The Virgins (2013). {{ISBN|1-935639-62-5}}
Fasenfest, Harriet. A Householder's Guide to the Universe (2010). {{ISBN|978-0-9825691-5-3}}
Freed, Dolly. Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and With (Almost) No Money (2010). {{ISBN|978-0-9820539-3-5}}
Fuller, Claire. Our Endless Numbered Days (2015). {{ISBN|978-1-9410400-1-0}}
Goldfaden, Josh. Human Resources (2006). {{ISBN|0-9776989-1-2}}
Grimes, Tom. Mentor: A Memoir (2010). {{ISBN|978-0-9825048-8-8}}
Hallman, J. C. ed. The Story About the Story: Great Writers Explore Great Literature (2009). {{ISBN|978-0-9802436-9-7}}
Harvey, Matthea, illustrated by Zechel, Elizabeth. The Little General and The Giant Snowflake (2009). {{ISBN|978-0-9776989-8-1}}
Heyns, Michiel, introduction by A. L. Kennedy. "The Children's Day" (2009). {{ISBN|978-0-9802436-6-6}}
Hirvonen, Elina. "When I Forgot" (2009). {{ISBN|978-0-9802436-5-9}}
Hunt, Samantha. "The Seas" (2018). {{ISBN|978-1-9410409-5-9}}
Krusoe, Jim. "Erased." (2009) {{ISBN|978-0-9802436-7-3}}
Krusoe, Jim. Girl Factory (2008). {{ISBN|978-0-9794198-2-9}}
Lawrence, Sarahlee. River House (2007). {{ISBN|978-0-9825691-3-9}}
Lemon, Alex. Mosquito (2006). {{ISBN|0-9773127-4-7}}
Matheson, Michele. Saving Angelfish (2006). {{ISBN|0-9773127-6-3}}
McCormack, Win. You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values (2008). {{ISBN|978-0-9794198-6-7}}
Michaels, Sean. Us Conductors (2014).
Montgomery, Lee and Tony Perez, eds. "The Writer's Notebook" (2009). {{ISBN|978-0-9794198-1-2}}
Morris, Keith Lee. Call It What You Want (2010). {{ISBN|978-0-9825030-8-9}}
Morris, Keith Lee. The Dart League King (2008). {{ISBN|978-0-9794198-8-1}}
Nevai, Lucia. Salvation (2008). {{ISBN|978-0-9794198-3-6}}
Otis, Mary. Yes, Yes Cherries (2007) {{ISBN|978-0-9776989-0-5}}
Parker, Jeff, Mikhail Iossel, eds. Francine Prose, intro. "Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia" (2009). {{ISBN|978-0-9820539-0-4}}
Parker, Jeff. Ovenman (2007). {{ISBN|978-0-9776989-2-9}}
Pashley, Jennifer. The Scamp (2015). {{ISBN|978-1-941040-11-9}}
Pico, Tommy. Nature Poem (2017). {{ISBN|978-1-941040-63-8}}
Shaughnessy, Brenda and C. J. Evans, eds. "Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House" (2008). {{ISBN|978-0-9794198-9-8}}
Smith, Robert Paul, illustrated by Smith, Elinor Goulding. How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself (2010). {{ISBN|978-0-9820539-5-9}}
Smith, Zak. Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow (2006). {{ISBN|0-9773127-9-8}}
Smith, Zak. "We Did Porn" (2009). {{ISBN|978-0-9802436-8-0}}
Sparling, Scott. Wire to Wire (2011). {{ISBN|978-1-935639-05-3}}
Specktor, Matthew. American Dream Machine (2012). 978-1935639442
Taylor, Kimball. The Coyote's Bicycle (2016). {{ISBN|978-1-941040-20-1}}{{Cite web|url=https://tinhouse.com/product/the-coyote/|title = The Coyote's Bicycle}}
van Niekerk, Marlene. Agaat (2010). {{ISBN|978-0-9825030-9-6}}
Vanasco, Jeanie. The Glass Eye (2017). {{ISBN|978-1-941040-77-5}}
Watson, Jan Elizabeth. Asta in the Wings (2009). {{ISBN|978-0-9802436-1-1}}[https://tinhouse.com/author/jan-elizabeth-watson/ Jan Elizabeth Watson], Tin House Catalog.