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Editor's Note
After two decades of publication, Tin House releases The Final Issue, featuring new stories, poems, and essays by Tin House writers from throughout our twenty-year history.
“Twenty years ago I believed that stories, poems, and essays could build bridges and save lives. I still believe this. Thank you for sharing the dream with us. I can’t wait to read what you write next.”
Table of Contents
Fiction
The Gondoliers
The Master's Castle
The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear
Blame
Ladder
The Furnace Room
Dress Rehersal
Can Only Houses Be Haunted?
Dogpatch
Freedom From Want
Nonfiction
from ABC
from A Primer for Forgetting
Poetry
Roseanne Barr
Poem for Harm
Poem for Harm
Animal Crackers
The First Time
I Think My Mother
Landing in San Francisco on the Way to the Community
Writers (With a Line by Tom Waits)
The First Time
I Think My Mother
Landing in San Francisco on the Way to the Community
Writers (With a Line by Tom Waits)
Forehead, Afraid, Overhearing Itself
What the Seas Would Make Us
I Will Destroy You
Backstage with Karen Black
At the Deluxe
Wind and Fog Garden
At the Deluxe
Wind and Fog Garden
There is No Lake
The Loneliness is Coming from Inside My Body
The Loneliness is Coming from Inside My Body
In the Poem No One Knows is About Me, I'm Pretty Much Prey
The Road is the Sickness and the Cure
The Road is the Sickness and the Cure
Ode to Anthony Bourdain
American Cowboy
Three Haiku
The Cow and the Butterflies
Second Childhood
O Josephina
Second Childhood
O Josephina
Memory
(People's Emotions in One City Block)
Two Lovers in Perfect // Synchronicity
Aubade en Portlandia
Soot Particles Contribute Twice as Much
Global Warming as Previously Thought
Global Warming as Previously Thought
Wild Sounds!
I Slept When I Couldn't Move
Andrew Wyeth's Footnotes to Marriage, 1993
Andrew Wyeth's Footnotes to Christina's World, 1948
Andrew Wyeth's Footnotes to Christina's World, 1948
Practicing Digressions
Parable
Parable
Yoga Soliloquy
Big Horn River, Montana
from Some Questions About Trees
Inshallah
Hearing Damage
Hearing Damage
Hearing Damage
Is This or Is This True as Happiness
Pastoral: Re-Pleat
Pastoral: Did You Have a Midlife Crisis on Top of Your Midlife Crisis
Pastoral: Did You Have a Midlife Crisis on Top of Your Midlife Crisis
Wonder
History of the Indian Wars as Seen from the 1980s
Field Guide to the Lost Species of California
Field Guide to the Lost Species of California
On Abiding
My Snatch is Pretty Good
Obit: Victoria Chang
Obit: Memory
Obit: Memory
1999
Fuck '90s Nostalgia
Vive la Vie
The Year in Letters
Analog 1999
Three Scenes
Out of Time
Pre-Millennium Tension
Lost & Found
on Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
on Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion
on Lisa Shea's Hula
on Bob Shacochis's Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love
Last Word
Trouble Maker
Readable Feast
An Antisocial Frittata
The Bliss Point
Stressing the Roots
Blithe Spirit
Applejacking
"Trump" "SoHo" "Hotel"