FICTION

Alexi Zentner TOUCH
My father, the foreman, stood at the top of the chute, shaking his mangled hand. “That’s money in the water, boys,” he yelled, “push on, push on."

Gina Ochsner SONG OF THE SELKIE
Imagine his surprise when he found one day not a shell, but a woman, nude and shivering, washed up on the breakers.

GRAPHIC NOVELS & MEMOIR

Graham Rawle An excerpt from WOMAN’S WORLD
Today, more than usual, I was in what Mary calls one of my ‘artistic moods,’ so that arranging a vase of artificial flowers on a what-not stand lasted the whole morning. Yes, my morning was very full, indeed.

Marjane Satrapi THE SECOND DAY, an excerpt from CHICKEN WITH PLUMS
On the second day, Nasser Ali Khan’s wife, Nahid, realized that her husband still hadn’t emerged from the bedroom

Martin Lemelman An excerpt from MENDEL’S DAUGHTER, A MEMOIR
“When the fresh snow came it covered up everything. To go out we had problems because we didn’t want to show our steps. We was worried they will find where we was hiding.”

POETRY

Dennis Nurkse
PAROUSIA

Thordis Bjornsdottir
NO. 2 . 91
NO. 3 . 92
NO. 4 . 93

Rachel Kessler, Sierra Nelson, and Sarah Paul Ocampo
THE TYPING EXPLOSION

Mark Bibbins
THE STARS OF OUR FAVORITE SHOWS ARE ALL IN LOVE BUT NOT WITH US

ENDING IN AN ABANDONED MONTH

Mary Ruefle
ERASURE

NEW VOICE—POETRY

Cate Peebles
SOUVENIRS
COGITO ERGO SUM: MIND REELS

INTERVIEWS

Elissa Schappell
A CONVERSATION WITH LYNDA BARRY
As a child, artist Lynda Barry (Cruddy, One Hundred Demons) hid her love of books from her disapproving mother and made collages instead. Tin House editor at large Elissa Schappell contacted Barry at her home in rural Wisconsin to talk about Barry’s creative process, selling art on eBay, and the lingering effects of war on the next generation.

Heather Hartley
AN INTERVIEW WITH MARJANE SATRAPI
Satrapi’s Persepolis series depicted her privileged childhood in Tehran, her solo move as a fourteen-year-old to Europe in the wake of the 1979 revolution, and later her return to Iran. The graphic novelist discusses her home country (“my psycho emotional mother”), France, and the U.S., as well as humor and gender in art, and more, with Tin House Paris Editor Heather Hartley.

FEATURES & ESSAYS

Zak Smith Foreword from GRAVITY’S RAINBOW ILLUSTRATED
The artist, who drew a picture for each page of Pynchon’s classic, answers the all-important question: “What the fuck?”

Lynda Barry A GRAPHIC ESSAY
Image, language, thought, experience . . . Where do they come from, where do they go?

ONE PHOTOGRAPH. THREE WRITERS.
Peter Rock INSTRUCTION
We knew that it wasn’t really a tattoo, that sailfish that you’d drawn; it almost passed, but the rain made the edges bleed.

Whitney Otto HEMINGWAY, HAIR, AND SODOMY
How can I say this? This photograph reminds me of Hemingway: his well-documented hair fetish, his famous fish, and something else.

Charles D’Ambrosio BAKERSFIELD
The bus driver got on his two-way radio with the dispatcher and the riders stared with their pale white faces pressed against the rainy windows.

Tom Tomorrow THE REVISED HISTORICAL DATABASE
Hi kids! Welcome to the revised historical database version of the Bush administration, with your very own teaching simulator. Everything has always been great!

Jo Ann Beard WERNER
On December 19, 1991, painter Werner Hoeflich leapt from the third floor window of his burning New York City apartment. Jo Ann Beard recreates that night.

Robert Marbury THE URBAN BEAST PROJECT
From the Trash Mammoth to the Snow Hognose Skunk, the new denizens of the city landscape.

Daniel Raeburn ¡HISTORIETAS PERVERSAS!
Welcome to Mexico’s “perverse little histories”—cheap, ubiquitous comic books that revel in every possible crime against nature and society. They aren’t even pornography: they’re smut. And we love them.

Anne Elizabeth Moore and Christa Donner WHY HAVE THERE BEEN NO GREAT WOMEN COMICS ARTISTS?
Or have there?

Lord Whimsy THE ART OF GETTING IT WRONG, PARTS I-III
The wandering path to the “delicate, hothouse form” of a new idea.

Daniel Duford and C. Hollow COLLABORATION
The struggle between the mundane and transcendent.

Michael Chabon, Dan Choan, Jonathan Lethem, Chris Offutt, and Luc Sante THE SILVER AGE OF COMICS
The teen cartoons of future literary stars, with an introduction by Chris Offutt.

Todd Haynes COMING ATTRACTION
The picture before the picture. Tin House presents storyboards for the forthcoming film I’m Not There from the director of Far From Heaven, The Velvet Goldmine, and other films.

Montana Wojczuk THE GREAT RESURRECTION
The work of the great nineteenth century woodblock artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi reflected the bloody upheavals of Japan itself.

LOST & FOUND

Karl Kesel FEARLESS
Jack Kirby’s Challengers of the Unknown.

READABLE FEAST

Anthony Swofford MY LIFE WITH SUKIYAKI
On family, lost love, foolishness, and Japanese food.

Stuart Dybek YELLOWTAIL
The crystal blue waters off the coast of Florida contain both the elusive yellowtail snapper and a multitude of Communist recipe suggestions.

THE LAST WORD

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