Emily Perper shares their love of dance with five great reads on ballet.
Tin House
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
Protecting Your Writing Time In This Weird Time of Ours
Poet Patricia Lockwood offers ideas on how to keep writing in the unstable, toxic, distracting times we live in.
Posted inFiction, Story
The Wolves
A forester’s daughter spends a night in a cabin in Soviet Russia, but it takes decades to discover how much danger she put her family in.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
Have Gin, Will Travel
Alexander Chee got sick the first time he drank gin. We’re glad he persevered.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
In Praise of Polarizing Food
Canned sardines turn many Americans off to fresh sardines, which is a shame. In Tin House‘s 2009 Appetites Issue, Jeff Koehler shares the little fish’s pleasures, describing how eating canned sardines in his vagabond youth led him to savoring fresh sardines as an adult, which culminated in years of culinary experimentation in his adopted home of Barcelona. […]
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction, Reading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week.
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‘I Have Been Writing To Impress Old White Men’
Claire Vaye Watkins, acclaimed author of Battleborn and Gold Fame Citrus, presented “On Pandering” during the 2015 Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story
House Heart
“I love this story for its wryness and subtlety, but most especially for its willingness to take me where I don’t want to go.”
Posted inBooks, Fiction
House Heart
“I love this story for its wryness and subtlety, but most especially for its willingness to take me where I don’t want to go.”
Posted inMember Pick, Nonfiction, Story
Budd & Leni
The story of Hollywood screenwriter Budd Schulberg’s unlikely collaboration with Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.