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Tin House: Spring Issue 2008: Off the Grid (Tin House)
Tin House Spring Issue 2008 Off the Grid - Tin House Author:Win McCormack, Rob Spillman, Lee Montgomery, Holly MacArthur, Michelle Wildgen Beautifully designed and showcasing the best of both well-known writers and rising stars, Tin House has pulled out of the pack to gain a reputation as the most important of contemporary literary magazines. Outsider literature, like outsider art and music, has become increasingly popular in our corporatized, consumerist society. The Spring... more » theme issue of Tin House examines this trend in depth. Subtitled ?Off the Grid,? this special issue includes powerful work by or about people or institutions that function ? or don?t ? out of the bounds of ?normal? society. Highlighting a unique kind of raw creativity unmediated by formal training or standard narrative strategies, the issue includes a ?Lost & Found? section that contains brief appreciations of texts written outside of conventional publishing, writings done in prison and mental institutions, exile and ?in secret,? and in fantastic realms beyond.« less