Synopses & Reviews
Edited by the same team responsible for 2003's popular Tin House fiction anthology Bestial Noise, this selection of dazzling nonfiction encapsulates everything readers love about Tin House: the magazine's lively intelligence, wide-ranging curiosity, and sense of fun. Here is the best of the first twenty issues, including Jeffrey Eugenides on living above a Nazi bunker in Berlin, Jo Ann Beard on the life and death of one of Jack Kevorkian's last patients, Russell Banks on adapting novels to the screen, and Czeslaw Milosz on fellow poet Joseph Brodsky. Celebrating both Tin House's themed issues (Sex, Hollywood, Music, Lies) and the magazine's various regular departments Readable Feasts, Pilgrimages, Lost and Found books Cooking and Stealing gathers remarkable essays on diverse subjects from some of today's most compelling writers, confirming why the Village Voice has declared: "Tin House may very well represent the future of literary magazines."
Table of Contents
Charles d'Ambrosio, Introduction
Jean Nathan, The Lonely Doll
David Gates, Possum Living
Elissa Schappell, Sex and the Single Squirrel
Panagiotis Gianopoulos, Arachnophilia
Amy Bloom, Cooking and Stealing
Rick Moody, Fractal Love of Brian Eno
Jo Ann Beard, Undertaker Please Drive Slow
Kathryn Harrison, Nit-Pickers
Eliot Weinberger, The Laughing Fish
Francine Prose, A Train of Powder
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Bunker
Katie Roiphe, Graham Greene's Vietnam
Russell Banks, No, But I Saw the Movie
Abigail Thomas, The Magnificent Frigate Bird
David Shields, The Only Solution to the Soul Is the Senses: A Meditation on Bill Murray and Myself
Ann Hood, Little Audrey
Gerry Howard, The Mandarin and the Hipster
Richard McCann, 0The Resurrectionist
Lisa Zeidner, No Mo Po-No
Ken Tucker, Webb Pierce's "There Stands the Glass"
Sara Roahen, Drinking My Inheritance
Christopher Merrill, After You
Sallie Tisdale, Violation
Gary Greenberg, Little Brown Shack
Michael Lowenthal, You Don't See the Other Person Looking Back
Albert Mobilio, For Keeps: The Christian C. Sanderson Museum
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