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, Diane Williams, Dale Peck, Seth Fried
An excerpt from the memoir "The Other Side" by Lacy M. Johnson. Non-fiction from Stephen King, Colum McCann, Cheryl Strayed, Jodi Angel, Kevin Barry, Tiffany Briere, Phillip Lopate, and Maggie Nelson
Poetry from C.K. Williams, Craig Morgan Teicher, Caroline Knox, Charlie Smith, Anna McDonald, Joe Wenderoth, Sean Zhuraw, Troy Jollimore, and Lindsay Walker
A 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"
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Win McCormack is publisher and editor-in-chief of Tin House magazine. He has been in the magazine and book publishing business since 1976. He published Oregon Magazine from 1976 to 1988, and has also been involved in publishing Oregon Business, Oregon Home, Travel Oregon, Military History Quarterly, and Art and Auction magazines, and was involved in the start-up of Mother Jones. He is editor of the books Profiles of Oregon, Great Moments in Oregon History, and The Rajneesh Chronicles, and won a William Allen White award for his investigative coverage of the Rajneesh cult from 1982-1986. He writes on politics and wrote the article "Deconstructing the Election: Foucault, Derrida and GOP strategy," about the presidential election debacle in Florida in 2000, for the Nation. He holds a BA in Government from Harvard College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon.

Rob Spillman is editor of Tin House magazine and executive editor of Tin House Books. He was previously the monthly book columnist for Details magazine and is a contributor of book reviews and essays to Salon and Bookforum. He has written for the Baltimore Sun, the Boston Review, British GQ, Connoisseur, Details, Nerve, the New York Times Book Review, Premiere, Rolling Stone, Spin, Sports Illustrated, SPY, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Worth, among other magazines, newspapers, and online magazines. He has also worked for Random House, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker.

Holly MacArthur lives in Portland, OR.

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