"While New York publishers star-search for this year's single lollipop best-seller, Tin House recalls what literature can give one honest reader. In its magazine and book publication, Tin House turns up much of what's still righteous and nervy in American writing.

Our country is unknowingly starved for works that show real human texture, works that admit to both the stress of our times and the depth of our essential spirit.

In Portland, Oregon, there stands a splendid concept-pagoda. Tin House is offering a roof–despite the toxins of commerce–shelter meant to keep our language alive.

Historians of the future? Start here."

–Allan Gurganus