Memory

Inspired by Nabokov’s famous title Speak, Memory, this issue of Tin House asks, What is memory? How does it work? Reliable, unreliable, manipulated, historical, contradictory ? this issue brings you fiction, poetry, interviews, essays, and memoirs revolving around memory. From pure speculation to hard cognitive science, we’re open and curious.

Fiction from:
Joy Williams, Diane Cook, Seth Fried
An excerpt from the memoir The Other Side by Lacy Johnson. Non-fiction from Tiffany Briere and Maggie Nelson

Poetry from:
Sean Zhuraw, Troy Jollimore, Tomaz Solomun, Lindsay Walker
An conversation between Dana Spiotta and Rachel Kushner
A Readable Feast from Ann Hood

Lost and Founds:
Stephen Sparks on Frances Yates's Art of Memory
Rebecca Makkai on Donner Party book
Hugh Ryan on When We Were Three
Micah Perks on Elizabeth Thomas's Reindeer Moon
Susan Rebecca White on The Edna Lewis Cookbook

Tin House magazine is published by Win McCormack and edited by Rob Spillman and Holly MacArthur along with Cheston Knapp, Michelle Wildgen, Matthew Dickman, Desiree Andrews, Emma Komlos-Hrobsky, and Lance Cleland. Win McCormack and Holly MacArthur both live in Portland, OR. Rob Spillman lives in Brooklyn, NY.