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TIN HOUSE 40:  TENTH ANNIVERYSARY ISSUE.

Featuring: Mostly Old Men by Stephen King.

FICTION

AMERICCA by Aimee Bender (Complete story)

THE PLANET TRILLAPHON AS IT STANDS IN RELATION TO THE BAD THING by David Foster Wallace

LOW-HANGING FRUIT by Jim Shepard

THE COUSINS by Charles Baxter

I STAY WITH SYD by Amy Hempel

A NIGHT OUT by Joshua Ferris

ARF by Stuart Dybek

DONKEY GREEDY, DONKEY GETS PUNCHED by Steve Almond

WHAT, OF THIS GOLDFISH, WOULD YOU WISH? by Etgar Keret (translated by Nathan Englander)

WHERE NOTHING EVER HAPPENS by David Gates

FIVE FICTIONS FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT by Lydia Davis

THE RIVER NEMUNAS by Anthony Doerr

JASON WHO WILL BE FAMOUS by Dorothy Allison

SUNDAY IN THE WINDY CITY by Ron Carlson

POETRY

BURNING MAN HAIKU by Olena Kalytiak Davis and Rick Moody

GOO IN THE VOID FREAK-OUT FIREBALL PIONEER by Lucia Perillo

MOSTLY OLD MEN by Stephen King

BACKSTAGE PASS by D.A. Powell

SEMI SEMI DASH NICHOLAS HUGHES IS DEAD by Jillian Weise

HUMMINGBIRD ODE TO MIX TAPES MILITANT by Sherman Alexie

SMUDGE by Thomas Sayers Ellis

INTERVIEWS

COLSON WHITEHEAD by Rob Spillman

BARRY HANNAH by Tom Franklin

ESSAYS

MY DEAR LITTLE ANIMAL by Jean Nathan

THE BLUE INSUPPORTABLE by Tom Grimes

THROUGH A GLASS LIGHTLY by Francine Prose

LOST & FOUND

ON SAUL BELLOW’S Ravelstein by Jon Raymond (Complete Essay)

ON ANDER MONSON’S Other Electricities by Cheston Knapp

ON DAVID MARKSON by Rob Spillman

ON GEORGE HOWE COLT’S The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home by Jeanne McCulloch

ON CARL WILSON’S Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Brian DeLeeuw

ON MANDY AFTEL’S Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume by Elissa Schappel