Books by Rob Spillman
Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing
by Rob Spillman
A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature
Coming at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality and urgency of African writing today. With stories from northern Arabic-speaking to southern Zulu-speaking writers, this collection conveys thirty different ways of approaching what it means to be African. Whether about life in the new urban melting pots of Cape Town and Luanda, or amid the battlefield chaos of Zimbabwe and Somalia, or set in the imaginary surreal landscapes born out of the oral storytelling tradition, these stories represent a striking cross section of extraordinary writing. Including works by J. M. Coetzee, Chimamanda Adichie, Nuruddin Farah, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Chinua Achebe, and edited by Rob Spillman of Tin House magazine, Gods and Soldiers features many pieces never before published, making it a vibrant and essential glimpse of Africa as it enters the twenty-first century.
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All Tomorrow's Parties: A Memoir
by Rob Spillman
Rob Spillmanthe award-winning, charismatic cofounding editor of the legendary Tin House magazinehas devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authenticity. Born in Germany to two driven musicians, his childhood was spent among the West Berlin cognoscenti, in a city two hundred miles behind the Iron Curtain. There, the Berlin Wall stood as a stark reminder of the split between East and West, between suppressed dreams and freedom of expression.
After an unsettled youth moving between divorced parents in disparate cities, Spillman would eventually find his way into the literary world of New York City, only to abandon it to return to Berlin just months after the Wall came down. Twenty-five and newly married, Spillman and his wife, the writer Elissa Schappell, moved to the anarchic streets of East Berlin in search of the bohemian lifestyle of their idols. But Spillman soon discovered he was chasing the one thing that had always eluded him: a place, or person, to call home. In his intimate, entertaining, and heartfelt memoir, Spillman narrates a colorful, music-filled coming-of-age portrait of an artist’s life that is also a cultural exploration of a shifting Berlin.
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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 Magazine: Summer Reading 2010: Vol. 11, No. 4
by Rob Spillman, Michelle Wildgen, Win McCormack, Holly MacArthur
Tin House is an award-winning literary magazine that publishes new writers as well as more established voices; essays as well as fiction, poetry, and interviews.
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Tin House Magazine: Games People Play: Vol. 11, No. 3
by Rob Spillman, Win McCormack
Tin House is an award-winning literary magazine that publishes new writers as well as more established voices; essays as well as fiction, poetry, and interviews.
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Tin House: Tribes (Fall 2014)
by Rob Spillman, Win McCormack, Holly MacArthur
Tin House is an award-winning literary magazine that publishes new writers as well as more established voices; essays as well as fiction, poetry, and interviews.
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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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Tin House Magazine: Winter Reading 2015: Vol. 17, No. 2 (Tin House Magazine, 66)
by Rob Spillman
Tin House brings you all the things you've come to expect from the acclaimed literary journal. Packed with wintery fiction, introspective essays, and artful poetry, this issue is perfect company for an afternoon in the shade.
The best company on a cold night is hot new fiction, poems, essays, and interviews. Warm up with Tin House this winter.
Fiction by Dorothy Allison, Patrick deWitt, Helen Phillips, Martha McPhee, Drew Ciccolo, James Scudamore, and Andrea Barrett
Poetry by Sharon Olds, Caroline Knox, Adam Fitzgerald, Cornelius Eady, Caroline O’Connor Thomas, and Timmy Straw
Features by Claire Vaye Watkins, Evie Wyld & Joe Sumner, Rachel Jamison Webster, CJ Hauser, and John Fischer
Lost & Founds by Carrie Brown, James Guida, Pamela Erens, Scott F. Parker, and Carol Keeley
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Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime from Tin House
by Rob Spillman
Featuring work by some of the most exciting contemporary women writers in the United States, Fantastic Women comprises eighteen inventive, insightful narratives steeped in a heady potion of surrealism and macabre black comedy. Meet the daughters of Franz Kafka, Mary Shelley, the Brothers Grimm, and Angela Carter. Fantastic Women assembles the work of eighteen inventive, insightful women authors who steep their narratives in a heady potion of surrealism and macabre black comedy. The results are wildly creative stories that capture the truth about human nature far more than much of the fiction (or, for that matter, the nonfiction) being written today. Why just women? More and more women writers are creating work that not only pushes the envelope but also folds realistic fiction into an origami dragon, transporting readers into worlds we’ve never seen before and digging deeper into the psychic bedrock than their male counterparts. So slip into a pocket universe, drive through a family’s home, awake in the night to find you’ve become a deer, and dive into the ocean to join your mermaid mother. We can’t imagine ever wanting to escape this spellbinding world, but if you must, best leave a trail of crumbs along your way.
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Tin House Magazine: Summer Reading 2017: Vol. 18, No. 4
by Rob Spillman, Holly MacArthur
An award-winning quarterly, Tin House started in 1999, the singular love child of an eclectic literary journal and a beautiful glossy magazine.
Drop it in your beach bag with the sunscreen and kadima paddles―our annual summer reading issue will feature a smorgasbord of new writing from established and new voices.
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Tin House Magazine: Rehab: Vol. 18, No. 3 (Tin House Magazine, 71)
by Rob Spillman, Win McCormack
An award-winning quarterly, Tin House started in 1999, the singular love child of an eclectic literary journal and a beautiful glossy magazine.
Kick the habit, rebuild that public image, and get back in fighting shape with Tin House this Spring. We're coming at Rehab from every possible angle with new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from established authors and New Voices alike.
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Tin House Magazine: Candy: Vol. 19, No. 3 (Tin House Magazine, 75)
by Rob Spillman, Win McCormack, Holly MacArthur
Featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from established authors and new voices alike, the Candy Issue explores those sweet, seductive things we crave, but that might also ruin us. Candy is all sugary, brightly colored, dangerous temptation―from jawbreakers to candy floss. From the comforting and childlike to those desirable things that can easily turn lurid and even destructive.Featuring stories, essays, and poems on appetites and the pursuit of pleasure, the hard edge on something sickly sweet, and the eternal allure of something you can’t quite trust. Candy―everyone wants more than is good for them.
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Tin House: Summer Reading 2018
by Rob Spillman, Win McCormack, Holly MacArthur
Throw on your sunglasses and prop up the parasol, Tin House is back with another Summer Reading edition. Enjoy the hottest new fiction, shine some light with uniquely personal nonfiction, and then cool off in the shade with the poets.
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Tin House Magazine: True Crime: Vol. 19, No. 1
by Rob Spillman, Holly MacArthur
An award-winning quarterly, Tin House started in 1999, the singular love child of an eclectic literary journal and a beautiful glossy magazine. Grand and slight, gritty and slick, our fall issue will be packing stories, essays, and poems inspired by the true crime genre. The long con is on you if you miss out on this one!
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Tin House Magazine: Faith: Vol. 17, No. 3 (Tin House Magazine, 67)
by Rob Spillman
Tin House's Faith Issue brings you all the things you've come to expect from the acclaimed literary journal. Packed with faithful fiction, introspective essays, and artful poetry, this issue is perfect company for an afternoon in the shade.
Showcasing fiction, poems, essays, and interviews dealing not only with religious faith but also faith in knowledge, math, science, people, animals, places, institutions, food, color―anything that could possibly be a receptacle for one’s faith, questioned or unquestioned, held or lost.
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