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Engineering Impossible Architectures, with Karen Russell.

“If I don’t take some time, I won’t get to see no time.”

Back in January, Tin House decided to reach out to illustration students at Brooklyn and Portland art schools in hopes of tapping some burgeoning local talent for our then upcoming Portland/Brooklyn issue. We ultimately we found avid participants in Scott Menchin, illustration instructor at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute and Martin French, the chair of the illustration [...]

Win Mindblowing Prizes!

“Their bags contained five pounds of cod. Had I defamed Iceland they were going to hurl all of it at me.”

“You’re not going to just sit and read to us, are you?”

We hope that the Tin House mix CD we’ve helped create will offer, in true Brooklyn fashion, room for everyone

It was one of the last night’s we’d have like that, a night before the world around us really would go out the window, the world before the fall.

A mix-tape, filled with the catchy hooks you might hear playing at a Park Slope BBQ, or the slightly ominous sounds that accompany your Stumptown coffee on a rainy Portland day.

Halfway through her talk, the police arrived.

To our delight and dismay, both places have become cliché cool.

Yesterday brought the exciting news that Portland’s own Vanessa Veselka is this year’s recipient of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, which “honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.” The talented debut novel in question is Zazen, which Tin House had the [...]

I’ve never been a pajama kind of guy.

As I’m writing this, my search for a literary agent finds me with three agents having turned down the project based on my query alone, two agents rejecting the manuscript after reading it, three agents reading it, and two queries still unanswered. In other words, I’m at the very beginning of my search. This is [...]

A weeklong look at some of our favorite posts from the past year.

On Faith And Its Discontents.

A weeklong look at some of our favorite posts from the past year.

A weeklong look at some of our favorite posts from the past year.

A weeklong look at some of our favorite posts from the past year.

A weeklong look at some of our favorite posts from the past year.

The Open Bar isn’t exactly open this week…but you can follow the Tin House Writer’s Workshop action on twitter with the #THWW hashtag