In case you need a steady supply of excellent reading material, look no further than Tin House Magazine. The Summer Reading issue is just out and here’s what the editor has to say about it:
In this issue, Tracy K. Smith captures a kind of awakening, via her young daughter, in her stunning poem “Dusk.” In Carmen Machado’s story “Blur,” the protagonist sees the future clearly despite losing her glasses. In a previously untranslated story, “Pride,” by Albert Camus, God wonders “In a world where seeking is impossible and everything is known, why then have the mind?” And Alexander Chee delivers gin-inspired revelations discovered on his global search for the perfect Martini.
Here is a portion of the contents of this newest issue:
Fiction
Daniel Wallace, SEA GIRLS
Rachel Khong, MY DEAR YOU
Albert Camus, PRIDE [TRANSLATED BY RYAN BLOOM]
Camille Bordas, HOW TO BEHAVE IN A CROWD
Carmen Maria Machado, BLUR
Jonathan Dee, ZERO
Ann Glaviano, COME ON, SILVER
Paul Yoon, MILNER FIELD
Poetry
Tracy K. Smith, DUSK
Donika Kelly, PRIMER: D’AULAIRES’ BOOK OF GREEK MYTHS, THE ORACLE REMEMBERS THE FUTURE CANNOT BE AVOIDED, GUN CONTROL
Susan Wheeler, ON THE LAMINATE, STRANGER
Kyle Dargan
IN 2016, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN POET KYLE DARGAN IS ASKED TO CONSIDER WRITING MORE LIKE THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN POET ROSS GAY
Mark Waldron, WHAT VILE, A TREE PARTY
CJ Evans, AIRSPACE, DIVORCE
Honor Moore, SURF, CHOSEN
Cate Lycurgus, DEAR LORD IF I AM MEANT TO BOAST, SAY WHY YOU KEEP ON BLESSING ME LORD
John Kinsella, TAWNY FROGMOUTH AND THE END OF THE ARBITRARY, EMPTYING THE ASH BUCKET
Jessica Fisher, THRALL
One thing Tin House and many other literary journals and magazines is now doing is offering the newer issues both in traditional journal form and also in downloadable digital form. Although I am still collecting years of Tin House Magazine on the shelves beside my bed, I have started adding the digital editions to my iPad and one day I may take the plunge and save only the digital edition in order to save space on my bookshelves.
A Celebration of Reading 