“Tin House was an opportunity to really kind of stick our thumb in the eye of traditional publishing,” Schappell said. But every issue of Tin House, including the last, featured at least one writer in the New Voices column. But reading an issue of Tin House was an act of discovery — of literature’s great variety of styles and subjects and voices. The author Karen Russell first encountered Tin House in graduate school in the 2000s. “I definitely had the impression,” she said, “that Tin House was where the party was at — these were the conversations you wanted to join, the brilliant weirdos with whom you wanted to share a dance floor.”

Source: New York Times June 06, 2019 18:33 UTC