McCormack has the dual title of editor in chief and publisher, with the husband-and-wife team of Spillman (who writes about books for Details) and Schappell (who contributes to Vanity Fair) serving as co-editors. "The world doesn't need another literary magazine, so this one's got to be different," Spillman told Salon Books. "We wanted writers to be paid well. We wanted funky features. We didn't want it to be too trendy. We sold Win on the idea of writers writing what they feel passionate about."

Thus, the first issue features Rick Moody on Brian Eno, Ariel Dorfman on Roman Polanski, and Francine Prose and David Gates on their favorite underappreciated books. It has Ron Carlson, David Foster Wallace and James Kelman in the fiction slots and poems by Charles Simic and C.K. Williams.

With names like those, Tin House finds itself going up in a pretty expensive neighborhood.
-- Craig Offman

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