Very Literary: The Well Chosen Book

How is the book business integrated with the collateral efforts (magazine, workshop)?

Tony Perez: Every Wednesday morning we sit around the conference table (most of us in person, some of us by way of Skype avatars) to stay apprised of what’s going on. We pass along stories, poems, and novel excerpts to the magazine editors, and they frequently send writers our way. Our authors often read and lecture at the Tin House Writer’s Workshop as well, which is a great opportunity for them—it’s not often that a debut writer from a small press gets the chance to read in front of a captive audience of several hundred people. The best example of our integrated nature might be long-time magazine contributor and workshop faculty member Karen Shepard. We’re publishing her new novel, The Celestials, in June, which feels like a tremendous coup for us.