Tin House Magazine: Theft

Vol. 17, No. 1

ISBN:
9780991258277
Pub Date:
08/19/2015
List Price:
$12.95
Page Count:
225
ISBN:
9780991258284
Pub Date:
01/22/2016
List Price:
$12.95
Page Count:
225

Tin House’s Theft Issue spends some time in the larcenous land of literature with stolen stories, embezzled essays, and pick-pocketed poetry.

“Talent borrows, genius steals” is usually attributed to Oscar Wilde, and occasionally Pablo Picasso. There is, however, no record of either one actually saying or writing this. T. S. Eliot, on the other hand, wrote, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” Theft and appropriation have always been artistic engines, and in this issue of Tin House, those engines run hot . . .

Featuring new work from Laura Lippman, Kevin Young, Mary Ruefle, George Singleton, Victor LaValle, Alissa Nutting, and more.