The World within: Writers Talk Ambition, Aesthetics, Bones, Books, Beautiful Bodies, Censorship, Cheats, Comics, Darkness, Democracy, Death, Exile, ... Men, Old Boys' Network, Oprah, Outcasts... - Softcover

McCormack, Win

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977698963 ISBN 13: 9780977698967

Verlag: Tin House Books, 2007

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The World Within pulls aside the curtain on a variety of literary personalities and careers with the freshest, funniest, and most intriguing interviews In the history of the award-winning literary journal Tin House. A veritable "who's who" of contemporary writers, poets, and graphic novelists discuss their work and lives (and how the two fit together), offer fascinating literary anecdotes, and show another facet in the making of the world's favorite literature.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

Holly MacArthur lives in Portland, OR.

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Tin House Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0977698963
• ISBN 13: 9780977698967
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 350
• Herausgeber: MacArthur Holly, McCulloch Jeanne, Montgomery Lee, Spillman Rob, Wildgen Michelle
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