Tin house books publishes fiction, nonfiction, story collections, and everything in between by both firsttime and established authors. These copies can take between two and four weeks to ship. Portland publisher win mccormack conceived the idea for tin house magazine in the summer of 1998. He enlisted holly macarthur as managing editor and developed the magazine with the help of two experienced new york editors, rob spillman and elissa schappell.
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