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“Sometimes I tell her that she should go into business worrying over children, spouses, the climate, the election, etc. for people who are too busy. Like those ladies who will pray for you, only less optimistic.”

“It’s interesting that love is so often characterised as a soft subject, represented by pinky, fluffy, harmless things. But everyone knows that people regularly kill themselves and each other over it.”

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Falling in love is a complicated, messy, mad endeavor…and staying in love is even worse. But don’t despair, psychoanalyst Anouchka Grose, author of Why Do Fools Fall in Love: A Realist’s Guide to Romance is here to help with all your love questions. Dear Anouchka, I recently came across the term “asexual” for people who [...]

Big thanks to contributor Sam Stephenson (and photographer Kate Joyce) who spotted us on 11th and 6th (NYC). Definitely a market we have been trying to tap into.

In case you dwell on the American side of the Atlantic, let me catch you up on a recent development in international literature—l’autofiction.

As a model and actress, Jennifer Sky has lived under the public eye. (Perhaps you recognize her from here?) Now as a writer, she turns her gaze back on the world of fashion and celebrity and tells us what we haven’t been seeing, in this web extra for our fiftieth issue: Beauty. The Birthmark ENGLAND [...]

“An artist’s creativity sometimes seems to benefit by chance, as for example, when information pertaining exactly to the theme you are secretly already working with is constantly calling out to you. But even that I wouldn’t call chance, because you have already certainly sensitized yourself to the topic.”

This year Tin House Books brings you wistful ruminations on things lost, moving and dark explorations of mental and psychical illness, harrowing tales from asylum seekers, and, of course, art thieves. With so many great things coming out, we could not be more excited for the year ahead.

A challenge for Tin House’s readers: Name five poets and fiction writers whose debut books were published in 2011. You may not open a new tab and google “debut poets and fiction writers.” Ready, set, go…

“But Sabrina wasn’t the perfect wife. She failed all of the tests. The pistol test, for example, where Thomas Day fired pistols at the girl and told her not to move.”

“Having a place to go once a week where people actually cared about writing and would argue with each other about my work helped me improve as a writer.”

Putting aside gray skies and lingering hangovers (did your New Years also involve nightclubs on the docks & cage dancing?), we cheerfully announce that we are now taking applications for the 2012 Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop. It is going to be another great summer here in Portland, with some familiar faces (Allison, Doerr, Powell, [...]

Might we suggest some libations from the Open Bar to facilitate your New Year’s Eve plans…

Tis the season….

“Attending reading series with the devotion of a zealot has not only enabled me to construct the supportive network my writing life so lacked, it has also—and I never saw this coming—improved my work.”

“There is, throughout all of Tamaki’s work, an aliveness, an energy—call it a creative chi.”

“You really have to think about the physical book more now if it is going to survive.”

“We hope you find the issue as strange and as beautiful as we do.”

“Tin House is offering up a winter bonanza sale!”

Gobble, Gobble…

“A breath of fresh air for your ears…”

“The initial lineup for the 2012 Summer Writer’s Workshop”