Books by Lee Montgomery
Woof!: Writers on Dogs
As the popularity of Marley & Me attests, people love their dogs?and everyone else?s too. For all the time spent on grooming, petting, and other care?it?s as if owning a dog is a religion unto itself. Woof! brings together original essays from acclaimed writers ruminating on the sometimes tumultuous, often selfless love affair between human and dog. Alternately poignant and hilarious, these collected stories of mutts and purebreds alike will win the hearts of the millions who?ve ever loved a member of the world?s most loyal species.
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The Things Between Us: A Memoir
An executive editor for Tin House magazine describes how her fragmented New England family overcame alcohol-related obstacles and was reunited by her gentleman farmer father's battle with stomach cancer. 30,000 first printing.
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The Things Between Us: A Memoir
The Montgomerys are among the last of a dying breed -- New England WASPs who effortlessly combine repression, flamboyant eccentricity, and alcoholism. Fragmented by drink and dysfunction, the family has not assembled in more than a decade. But when Big Dad, the patriarch, is diagnosed with stomach cancer, the siblings return to their childhood home, Four Corner Farm, to help their parents navigate the specialists, treatment options, pain management, and, most difficult of all, their own anguish.
Big Dad has always moved carefully through life, taking responsibility for the farm, the cars, the house, and his wife. The irrepressible Mumzy, now in her late seventies, drinks her first gin each day at 8:45 a.m. and spends her time singing jazz standards and reliving the glory days when she rescued horses from the now defunct hunt club. Prickly and proud, the two have always tried to keep their chins up, but Big Dad's cancer rattles their formidable denial.
Montgomery's stunning memoir vividly evokes the often unspoken bonds between family members -- bonds made of memory, love, and disappointment. Heartbreaking, lyrical, and frequently hilarious, The Things Between Us hums with a sense of wonder as the author discovers anew the most familiar people in her life, herself among them.
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Tin House: Spring 2009
by Rob Spillman, Lee Montgomery, Michelle Wildgen, Win McCormack
Product Description
With innovative and colorful design, innovative regular features appearing alongside award-winning fiction and essays, and even recipes and word games,
Tin House has established itself as one of America's most eagerly awaited literary magazines. Departments such as "Lost and Found," "Blithe Spirits," and interviews with some of the culture's most fascinating and talented people have made it a favorite of both readers and critics. Like all issues, there's an overarching theme to this latest one: appetite. Readers are encouraged to bring their appetites for food, sex, drugs, drink, and their hunger for resources, entertainment, gratification, and humiliation. The issue features stories, poems, and essays that fit and sometimes wildly expand upon Webster’s definitions for
appetite as an inherent craving” or any of the instinctive desires necessary to keep up organic life.”
About the Author
Win McCormack is publisher and editor-in-chief of Tin House magazine. He has been in the magazine and book publishing business since 1976. He published Oregon Magazine from 1976 to 1988, and has also been involved in publishing Oregon Business, Oregon Home, Travel Oregon, Military History Quarterly, and Art and Auction magazines, and was involved in the start-up of Mother Jones. He is editor of the books Profiles of Oregon, Great Moments in Oregon History, and The Rajneesh Chronicles, and won a William Allen White award for his investigative coverage of the Rajneesh cult from 1982-1986. He writes on politics and wrote the article "Deconstructing the Election: Foucault, Derrida and GOP strategy," about the presidential election debacle in Florida in 2000, for the Nation. He holds a BA in Government from Harvard College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon.
Rob Spillman is editor of Tin House magazine and executive editor of Tin House Books. He was previously the monthly book columnist for Details magazine and is a contributor of book reviews and essays to Salon and Bookforum. He has written for the Baltimore Sun, the Boston Review, British GQ, Connoisseur, Details, Nerve, the New York Times Book Review, Premiere, Rolling Stone, Spin, Sports Illustrated, SPY, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Worth, among other magazines, newspapers, and online magazines. He has also worked for Random House, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker.
Michelle Wildgen is the author of the novel
You’re Not You (St. Martin’s/Dunne). She is a senior editor at Tin House magazine, where she edits the Readable Feast and Blithe Spirits departments, and an editor at Tin House Books. Her writing has appeared in Best New American Voices 2004, Best Food Writing 2004, the anthology Death by Pad Thai, the journals StoryQuarterly, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Small Spiral Notebook, and elsewhere.
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Tin House: The International Issue
by Rob Spillman, Lee Montgomery, Win McCormack, Holly MacArthur
Tin House Magazine is a beautifully designed periodical featuring the best writers of our time alongside a new generation of talent who are poised to become the most important voices of the future. Content includes short stories, profiles, author interviews, poetry, essays, and unique departments such as "Lost & Found," reviews of overlooked or underrated books; and "Blithe Spirits" and "Readable Feast," which present tales and recipes for drinks and food in a literary way.
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Tin House: Graphic Issue (Tin House Magazine)
by Rob Spillman, Lee Montgomery, Win McCormack, Holly MacArthur
Editor Win McCormack started Tin House in 1999 as an antidote to "those stuffy, staid literary magazines that go down like cough medicine.” His gamble has paid off handsomely Tin House is now ranked alongside such magazines as McSweeney’s and The Paris Review as one of the most important contemporary literary venues. Noted also for its high-style design, Tin House features the best writers on the scene, along with a new generation of talent the editors believe will become significant writers of the future. Equally engaged with pop culture and high art, the Tin House: Graphic Issue expands the magazine’s mission by exploring the ways in which visual art and text interact or collide. Incorporating original art, stories, and interviews, this issue highlights the work of the most provocative graphic novelists, political cartoonists, artists, and writers today.
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Tin House: Spring Issue 2008: Off the Grid
by Rob Spillman, Lee Montgomery, Michelle Wildgen, Win McCormack, Holly MacArthur
Beautifully designed and showcasing the best of both well-known writers and rising stars, Tin House has pulled out of the pack to gain a reputation as the most important of contemporary literary magazines. Outsider literature, like outsider art and music, has become increasingly popular in our corporatized, consumerist society. The Spring theme issue of Tin House examines this trend in depth. Subtitled Off the Grid,” this special issue includes powerful work by or about people or institutions that function or don’t out of the bounds of normal” society. Highlighting a unique kind of raw creativity unmediated by formal training or standard narrative strategies, the issue includes a Lost & Found” section that contains brief appreciations of texts written outside of conventional publishing, writings done in prison and mental institutions, exile and in secret,” and in fantastic realms beyond.
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Whose World Is This? (Iowa Short Fiction Award)
Montgomery's characters blow drugs and boys, advise friends who are dying of AIDS about pennies in penny loafers, write letters to Caroline Kennedy, and fall in love with movie stars. Some lose themselves to ambivalence while contemplating motherhood; others find themselves soothed when, after hearing of the sudden death of a dear friend they seduce a stranger.
In the story "We Americans," a woman abandoned by her husband grows so vulnerable, she internalizes TV news tragedies by developing hives in the shapes of foreign countries. In the title story, Hannah, a speed freak working the graveyard shift in a nursing home, falls in love with a quadriplegic who void of feelings in his limbs, feel things she cannot. In "Avalanche", an editor to movie stars in Beverly Hills struggles with how to reconcile her own story with the fairy-tale endings of celebrity culture.
Tender, poignant, and at times hilarious, the women in Whose World Is This? turn common notions of love, compassion, and tradition upside down as they show us how vulnerability, although dangerous, is what makes life astonishingly beautiful and reality strangely unreal.
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