Eric Holder, whose relations with the White House have grown rocky over the perception that he has a tin ear for politics and, in particular, national security, is now under attack on another front: For a 2004 brief he signed that n...

“Yep. I can’t bear to revise. I want to give it away to an editor. ‘Please, do it for me!’ I can’t revise myself very well. ” In honor of Barry Hannah’s passing Tin House has posted an interview with him that they published last sum...

I just discovered the other day that Tin House Books is offering a set of four of their books for $35.99 via their website as The Tin House Writers' Series.  This is a wonderful deal: The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin Hou...

Tin House in Gamalakhe Tintown in Margate If you’ve seen Neill Blomkamp’s movie District 9, the tin house above should be familiar. Indeed, the slum that housed the alien prawns is similar to the Gamalake township in South Africa, d...

If you bar-b-que in your backyard, and the smoke comes over and causes damage to my house, you should be liable for that damage. That's the basic nuisance argument Steve Susman of Susman Godfrey, attorney for the citizens of the tin...

If you bar-b-que in your backyard, and the smoke comes over and causes damage to my house, you should be liable for that damage. That's the basic nuisance argument Steve Susman of Susman Godfrey, attorney for the citizens of the tin...

The Coakley vs. White House snit fit that Ben Smith is chronicling at Politico is simply too rich to ignore. Predictably, the White House is spinning the "bad candidate" meme while the Coakley camp is pointing a finger at the tin ea...

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       Maud Newton points me to Heather Hartley's A Conversation with Amélie Nothomb at Tin House.        Good news: Europa Editions will (finally) be bringing out her first work, the very enjoyable Hygiène de l'assassin.        (...

The latest Tin House includes an interview with Amélie Nothomb, fiction from Nothomb and Keith Lee Morris, Dani Shapiro on Ellen Miller, and A.N. Devers on María Louisa Bombal.

The $700 billion Wall Street bailout last year proved exceedingly unpopular with regular Americans. Nevertheless, House Democrats, with their tin ears to the ground, are looking to make bailouts the status quo by creating a permanen...

The current Tin House has fiction by David Foster Wallace: "THE PLANET TRILLAPHON AS IT STANDS IN RELATION TO THE BAD THING." Not sure what this is.

This week in New York the Rumpus and Tin House present MORE THAN YOU EXPECTED with Rick Moody, Starlee Kine and Eugene Mirman followed by a meteor shower, Martin Amis and Chip Kidd celebrate Nabakov’s work with special exhibit of Th...

Here are two items related to climate change that read well next to each other.One is from a magazine called Tin House—an article by Curtis White skewering the idea of sustainability. A taste:For environmental, business, and politi...

Curtis White’s essay in the new Tin House, “A Good Without Light,” contemplates the dark side of sustainability. In a word, he argues that sustainability, as a philosophy, is a desperate and perhaps futile attempt to figure out how ...

Here’s some weekend reading: Sigrid Nunez has written a beautiful memoir of Susan Sontag in the latest issue of Tin House. (The text is not available online, but I highly recommend you pick up this issue of Tin House: it’s a really ...

Tin House, a literary magazine, asked me to introduce the current science fiction issue with an overview of the field. I wrote them an essay called "Radical Presentism," about the way that science fiction reflects the present more t...

Do you like old fashioned tin or plastic robots and toys as much as we do? Well head on over to Smith House Toys as they have a huge auction going on now from the Alan Rosen collection.  You can bid buy phone or email, but be prepar...

Dan Green finds the advice garnered from Tin House's writers' workshop (collected in the recent book The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House ) overly formulaic: Thus Tom Grimes informs us that "our stories are amorphous u...

If we take The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House (Tin House Books) to be a representative gathering of critical wisdom from current American writers, what does it ultimately tell us about these writers' understanding of...