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Tinti: A revolutionary new auth
Wielding a talent for the darkly spectacl
Cassie Mathleson
I The Clackamas Print
The picture Hannah Tinti
paints for her readers is undeni
ably a vibrant and multi-faceted
one. Tinti’s writing gives
her fans a chance to expe
rience the raw and pal
pable aspects of life,
death, and all the time
spent waiting between
the two. But best of all, she’s
only 28 years old.
On Friday of this last week
we had a chance to speak with
this revolutionary new author.
In the Literary Arts Center
right here on campus, Tinti
spoke with our own aspir
ing writers, and read from
her new compilation of
stories,
“Animal
Crackers.”
Her new book is a
grouping of fictional
tales all having some
thing to do with animals
of one kind or another.
As in “Home Sweet
Home,” her second story
included in the compilation,
a lovable family canine is the
first one to stumble upon the
bloodied remains of the couple
next door. Or in the title story very big influences to my writ
“Animal Crackers,” where our ing.
main character holds a job in a
zoo and relays to us all the car TP: What would be your
nage-ridden stories and experi response to those who say your
ences of those who have worked writing is overly gruesome or
there longer than he.
morbid?
We caught
up with Tinti
HT:
My
intention is
while she was
not to shock.
here
at
“My intention is
I am interest
Clackamas
ed in violence
and asked her
not to shock,
a few ques
and
what
I
am
interested
causes people
tions about
in violence and
to be violent;
her provoca
because that
tive
litera
what causes
is my subject,
ture.
people to be
it
brings
The Print:
along
the
violent...”
other quali
Who are your
ties naturally.
biggest liter
Hannah Tinti
My instructor,
ary
influ
Author
of
A.M
ences at this
"Animal Crackers"
Holmes, said
point in your
something
writing?
that I’ll have
to take her,
Hannah
Tinti: I would like to say ‘men write about violence all
Charlotte Bronte ... and Emily the time and when women do it,
Bronte, so, I guess that would it’s an issue.’ I believe [vio
just be the Brontes (laughs). lence] would be much less
Also I would have to say Blanch noticed if I were a man.
Boyd and A.M. Holmes; both of
them were teachers of mine and TP: Do you intentionally give
your readers the chadI
pret your literary JI
themselves?
HT: I wouldn’t cal
political writer at all
ing is very direct, o
think it is. People
find a hidden mean!
(laughs).
TP: Do you have on
you would want to
your audience with
ing?
HT: My only desire
writing causes an
necessarily the typi
just to connect witht
makes people be vio
want diem to take
away from it.
If you have an in
darker side of the hi
or even if you arej
extraordinary litera
skip over this brave
At such a young age
remarkable talent al
the indescribable, si
to be reckoned with,
is for sure, you have
last of Hannah Tinti
John Stewart’s America’ a satirical look at Democi
Katie Wilson
The Clackamas Print
So what do you know about
America?
Did you know that Millard
Fillmore, our 13th president,
lived for 18 years with a pair of
magical talking cats who insist
ed (for unknown reasons) on
calling him Mr. Norris?
Did you know that the Homo-
sapiens of the future will be
large and hairless with gigantic
craniums, meaning, in other
words, that we will all resemble
Vin Diesel?
According to Jon Stewart’s
(of “The Daily Show”) new book
“America (The Book): A
Citizen’s Guide to Democracy,”
you should probably know all
these things if you’re going to
effectively support democracy.
Step one to supporting
democracy, memorize these
three dates:
1492
(when
Christopher Columbus discov
ered our country, unless you
hold with the foolish belief that
says the Vikings actually discov
ered it a billion years before, in
which case you’re obviously a
Communist and we can ignore
your opinion entirely), 1620
(when the pilgrims landed at
Plymouth Rock, until there were
too many pilgrims and they had
to leave), and...another date
which I’ve already forgotten.
Anyway, to learn the other
steps, you’ll have to read the
book...which leads us to the
burning question, should you
read this book?
If you find the increasingly
random use of the “f-word” and
all its variations amusing, you
will like this book.
If you find the crude humor of
Jon Stewart wonderful, you will
like this book.
If you want to learn about
democracy without “really”
learning about it, you will like
this
book—and,
strangely
enough, you will probably learn
a lot about our government if
you read this book.
Stewart’s “America” is a
highly satirized, somewhat fac
tual but mostly made up “text
book” on the history of democra
cy and government and why,
even if we are screwed up, we’d
rather live in America than in
any other country in the world.
This book is also sexist,
slightly racist, crude, a waste of
time and occasionally very
funny.
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