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  • papertrail • June 09, 2019

    The Final Issue of 'Tin House'; Barnes and Noble Sold

    ...DsB7aq3w2B4m7XcTan7WYU3e895nHaOY7i6lVKzJUv5yzJxl4> run by Elissa Schappell and Rob Spillman that, after twenty years, will publish its final, 400-page issue this month. In an eloquent and rangy...

  • papertrail • December 14, 2018

    Tin House discontinues print magazine; Tommy Orange wins Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

    ... for printing costs will be shifted to Tin House Books and the Tin House Workshop. “Twenty years feels like the right time to be stepping away and moving on to new adventures,” said editor Rob...

  • papertrail • October 15, 2018

    Maryse Conde Wins the "Alternative Nobel"

    ... U.K., and in the U.S.” On Sunday, October 21, at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn, author and Tin House editor Rob Spillman will offer a seminar on “establishing authority for writers.” Spillman...

  • papertrail • October 19, 2017

    A new novel by the late Sam Shepard

    ... evening will feature Forrest Gander and Lucy Ives on miracles and disasters, Dominic Pettman and Merritt Symes on Chicken Little, and Elissa Schappell and Rob Spillman on meditation. ...

  • papertrail • May 14, 2015

    Facebook as the Blob; Seymour Hersh speaks

    ... Memorial : Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, and Rob Spillman, who was given a magazine editor’s award for his work at Tin House. The Awl weighs...

  • papertrail • September 12, 2014

    Alan Moore completes million-word novel

    ... paintings that describe the evolution of his career in Hollywood. Guernica has a new column about politics and fiction

  • papertrail • April 01, 2013

    Apr 1, 2013 @ 12:38:00 am

    ... How are Goodreads users reacting to news of the forthcoming takeover by Amazon? Not well, says Rob Spillman at...

  • papertrail • September 16, 2011

    Sep 16, 2011 @ 1:54:00 pm

    ... Francis McArdle Hall (180 Remsen Street), reading and Q&A introduced by Tin House editor Rob Spillman. You Say You Want a Revolution? Music is often the voice of a generation-a touchstone for issues...

  • print • Apr/May 2011

    The Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise

    Perec's office novel takes fluorescent-lit anomie and shoots it through a complex if-then calculus, sending a hapless hero through a workplace maze where he must repeatedly avoid sour coworkers and steel his resolve to ask for more money. • Rob Spillman

    Georges Perec, who died in 1982 at the age of forty-five, was far, far ahead of his time. One of the core members of Oulipo, the international group of writers who use

  • papertrail • January 31, 2011

    Jan 31, 2011 @ 9:00:00 am

    ...-only audience enjoyed a lively discussion moderated by Tin House’s Rob Spillman, as panelists Pierre Cassou-Noguès, Rick Moody, Avital Ronell, and Benjamin Walker discussed the intersections of the...

  • print • June/July/Aug 2009

    Clout of Africa

    A bevy of recent publications suggests that Africa may be in the midst of its own literary boom. • James Gibbons

    ... challenge of African writing is to provide some new news. Judging from Rob Spillman’s anthology Gods and Soldiers, African writers have risen to the task. Spillman offers a bracing array of current...

  • print • Fall 1999

    TWITCH ME DEADLY

    Rob Spillman