Tin House Scholars | Tin House tinhouse.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tinhouse.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Brooklyn, NY, June 19, 2020.
Volume 62, Issue 1
SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK. As mnemonics go, one of the best, as equipment for living, not the recipe we need. Though this issue hits the bookstands the day after we spin the clocks ahead, if springing forward is what you’re looking for, you’ve come to the wrong place. Many things must change, given where we’ve been, yet none of that will happen unless we come to terms with what we’ve learned. And it isn’t the lies, the self-dealing, the rancor, or even, at some level, the damage done, the lives ended, the fortunes ruined, the friends and family lost. All of that still burns, how could it not, and nothing will be forgotten, because how could it be? Yet what is truly essential, what must at last be confronted, was delivered to us drop by drop during this interminable succession of isolated days, a truth that 2020 hindsight cannot not reveal. Though elsewhere there will be other versions, in the US that truth is simple: this co
Zak Salih: On Embracing the Selfishness of Writing
Debut novelist Zak Salih considers how his viewpoint on writing vs. revision led him to embrace the messiness of the writing process and why he wrote Let s Get Back to the Party.
Author:
Crazyhorse, the
Photo (c) Emily Poland
Book title:
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Genre/category: Literary Fiction / LGBT Fiction
Elevator pitch for the book: Two estranged childhood friends reconnect as adults and struggle to find their place as gay men in a rapidly changing culture and world.
Previous titles by the author: N/A
What prompted you to write this book?