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Mentor: A Memoir A chance encounter between two writers, one young, one older, develops into a wonderful friendship neither expected. Frank Conroy, author of the classic memoir Stop-Time, meets Tom Grimes, an aspiring writer and an applicant to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, which Conroy directs. Exquisitely written, Mentor is an honest and heartbreaking exploration of the writing life and the role of a very important teacher. "One of the truest accounts of a writer's life—of two writers' lives—I've yet seen. A poignant and beautiful book." |
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The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto
One part celebration, one part history, two parts manifesto, Bernard DeVoto’s The Hour is a comic and unequivocal treatise on how and why we drink—properly. The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author turns his shrewd wit on the spirits and attitudes that cause his stomach to turn and his eyes to roll (Warning: this book is NOT for rum drinkers). "The Hour is not simply a piece of humorous cultural patriotism either. It is a manual of witchcraft, a book of spells and observances." |
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Agaat
“I was immediately mesmerized . . . Its beauty matches its depth and her achievement is as brilliant as it is haunting.” Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique, forty-year relationship between Milla, a sixty-seven-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. With haunting, lyrical prose, Marlene van Niekerk creates a story about love and loyalty. |
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Call It What You Want
In this stunning story collection inhabited by dreams and disappointments, good intentions and small triumphs, Keith Lee Morris chronicles the lives of men lost in the liminal spaces between adolescence and adulthood. “Here are thirteen manic, beautiful stories, each centered around working men, dads, and boys, all of them broken or on the edge of breaking. Each bears witness to fragility, confusion, and beauty. Each is quietly brilliant.” |
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How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself To see videos of real kids making dangerous projects and to learn more about the book, visit www.howtodonothing.net. New York Times Best-seller How to Do Nothing literally tells "how to do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself"— real things, fascinating things, the things that you did when you were a kid, or your parents did when they were kids. This is a book to free your kid from video games for a few hours, a handbook on the avoidance of boredom, a primer on the uses of solitude, a child's declaration of independence. "Every great book reminds us that we're all alone in the world. At least this one provides us with the means to entertain ourselves while we're here." |
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Hot Springs Vibrant, sexy, and quite possibly crazy, Bernice is determined to reclaim the child she gave up for adoption five years ago. She convinces her boyfriend, Landis, to help carry out her plan, but once the abduction is accomplished, Bernice is plagued with doubts. As Bernice and Landis journey across America, from Colorado Springs to Tucson to Baltimore, Bernice must confront her past and the secrets she has kept. "Hot Springs is a road trip layered with desire and mistake and the impossibility of keeping a secret from rising through the years." |
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Possum Living:
How to Live Well Without a Job and With (Almost) No Money
To read more about Possum Living, please visit www.possumliving.net. In the late seventies, at the age of eighteen and with a seventh-grade education, Dolly Freed wrote Possum Living about the five years she and her father lived off the land on a half-acre lot outside of Philadelphia. In her delightful, straightforward, and irreverent style, Freed guides readers on how to buy and maintain a home, dress well, cope with the law, stay healthy, save money, and be lazy, proud, miserly, and honest, all while enjoying leisure and keeping up a middle-class façade. |
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The Tin House Writer’s Series The perfect gift for the writer in your life, The Tin House Writer’s Series includes the best books on writing craft and the writing life. The Writer’s Notebook, The Story About the Story, The World Within , and The Journal of Jules Renard are included in this new collection. |
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The Little General and The Giant Snowflake What magical message is a giant snowflake trying to bring to a little general, and to the world? In a time of violent military solutions to global problems, this illustrated allegory by leading poet Matthea Harvey has a powerful resonance. "Utterly charming—I love this little general and the strange and wondrous and precise world he lives in." |
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The Story About the Story: Great Writers Explore Great Literature The essays in The Story About the Story feature lively discussions of great literature by some of the most prominent authors of all time. With over thirty essays written by authors as diverse as Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf to Cynthia Ozick and Salman Rushdie, this collection offers an invaluable course on literature as well as a look into “Creative Criticism,” a form of critical essay that involves a personal perspective. "In these pages some of our finest writers stand up and testify to the power of literature to shake and shape our very souls." |
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Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia Few countries have undergone more radical transformations than Russia has since the fall of the Soviet Union. The stories in Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia present twenty-two depictions of the new Russia from its most talented young writers. Selected from the pages of the top Russian literary magazines and written by winners of the most prestigious literary awards, most of these stories appear here in English for the first time. "The current state of Russian identity—artistic, political, social and beyond—is vigorously examined in this anthology, offering readers a multifaceted portrait of the complex nation...This is a truly diverse series of revelations." |
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The Children's Day A tender chronicle of a boy's coming of age in South Africa during the apartheid years of the sixties. “An important, lovely and thoughtful book.” |
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We Did Porn We Did Porn follows Zak Smith (or Zak Sabbath) from the New York art scene to Los Angeles's seedy, yet colorful, underbelly—the world of alt porn. "Intelligent, frank and often hilarious meditation on the author's dual career...The pleasure in this book comes not from living through the author's atypical experience, but in being taken deeper into areas of thought commonly perceived as taboo—a wild, entirely worthwhile ride." |
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Erased Abandonment, life, death, and, oddly, Cleveland are explored in the hilarious second installment of Jim Krusoe's trilogy about resurrection. "Jim Krusoe is one of America’s most sincere satirists, a treasured literary oddball. No one interweaves the comic, the absurd, the outrageous and the mundane or plays them off each other the way he does." |
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The Writer’s Notebook The Writer's Notebook combines the best craft seminars in the history of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop with a variety of essays written by some of Tin House's favorite authors, offering aspiring writers insight into the craft of writing. "Entertaining" |
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When I Forgot An astonishingly assured and compelling debut, When I Forgot explores the relationship between a sister and her brother, the past that they share, and the memories that shape their lives forever. “Potent, fragile and tender, ‘When I Forgot’ is really the story of ‘When I Remembered,’ of a woman summoning the courage to unlock her memories and share them, and feeling the relief of exhaling breath held too long.” |
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Asta in the Wings A poignant and darkly funny story narrated by Asta Hewitt, a resourceful seven-year-old growing up in an isolated house in Maine. Shut off from the outside world and restricted to the company of a delusional mother and a bookish older brother, Asta is content to be part of a "society of three." "A gem of a book." "Jan Elizabeth Watson has created one of the most appealing fictional heroines I've encountered in a long time...A highly original debut." |
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Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House celebrates Tin House magazine's commitment to publishing innovative contemporary poetry by both established and emerging poets. The Village Voice declared that Tin House "may very well represent the future of literary magazines." |
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November 22, 1963 November 22, 1963 chronicles the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination and explores the intersection of stories and memories and how they represent and mythologize that defining moment in history. “Braver’s collection is a piercing portrait of those who experienced the Kennedy assassination first-hand. ”—Steve Almond, author of My Life in Heavy Metal |
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The Dart League King An intriguing tale of darts, drugs, and death. Russell Harmon is the self-proclaimed king of his small-town Idaho dart league, but all is not well in his kingdom. "Morris is heir to the Richard Ford of Rock Springs." |
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The Journal of Jules Renard Spanning from 1887 to a month before his death in 1910, The Journal of Jules Renard is a unique autobiographical masterpiece that, though celebrated abroad and cited as a principle influence by writers as varying as Somerset Maugham and Donald Barthelme, remains largely undiscovered in the United States. "Directly, or indirectly, Renard is at the origin of contemporary literature." |
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Salvation Sometimes funny, sometimes eerie, Salvation is the story of the coming of age of Crane Cavanaugh, born into a family of three former charlatan preachers and two older siblings living in poverty in rural Iowa. A budding scientist, Crane narrates her life from the moment of birth, with a rich awareness of the natural world and her own precarious spot in it. "What a fantastic novel. Salvation is an absolute knockout. I read it without stopping and fell in love by the end of the day." |
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Girl Factory Things don’t always work out the way they ought to—or do they?—in this unsettling darkly comic novel. Girl Factory is an exploration of memory, desire, and the nature of storytelling, all set against the backdrop of a frozen yogurt shop's underbelly. "A work of great originality, humour, cunning, and charm."
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Do Me: Tales of Sex and Love from Tin House "Literature—creative literature—unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable." Do Me goes all the way with the funniest, boldest, hottest, and most richly imagined explorations of sex by some the finest contemporary writers. |
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The World Within Writers Talk Ambition, Angst, Aesthetics, Bones, Books, Beautiful Bodies, Censorship, Cheats, Comics, Darkness, Democracy, Death, Exile, Failure, Guns, Misery, Marijuana, Muses, Movies, New Age Men, Old Boys' Network, Oprah, Outcasts, Prison, Sex, Suicide, Smoking, Strippers, Torture, Underwear, Vietnam, VD, Violence, and More The World Within gathers twenty of the freshest, funniest, and most intriguing interviews in the history of Tin House. |
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The Entire Predicament Lucy Corin’s daring debut story collection leads the reader through a world where characters behave normally in the most extreme situations and bizarrely with almost no provocation at all. Unpredictable and playful, Corin brilliantly dissects time, people, places, and things, truly rendering how it feels to be human. "These short stories are as smart as pinpricks, magic tricks. They go off like a string of firecrackers." “Lucy Corin is a fearless writer.” |
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Ovenman Skateboarder, restaurant worker, and punk rocker wannabe, the antihero of Jeff Parker’s uproariously funny debut novel adds a new twist to the classic coming-of-age story. When Thinfinger, a ne’er-do-well with a slightly tarnished heart of gold, relies on Post-it notes to help him make sense of the chaos and momentum of his life: a girlfriend who dreams he murders her, a long lost Biodad who writes letters filled with lies, a televised war that is over before it has even begun, and a robbery he can’t remember committing. “Ovenman is a welcome addition to the literature of the lovably hapless by a young writer with talent to burn.” “This novel really cooks. Read it tonight.” |
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Yes, Yes, Cherries Poignant and sharply rendered, Mary Otis’s debut collection seeks answers to the questions of whom we love and why, how we search for love, lose it, or find it—sometimes at the last moment and in the most unlikely places. “Mary Otis sees things from the odd angle, which is the literary one. It makes her stories true-to-life, funny, brave, and amazing.” |
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Human Resources In his debut short story collection, award-winning writer Josh Goldfaden limns the magical, witty, and touching world of these singular characters and their hidden compulsions and idiosyncrasies. “Here is a talented writer at the bright edge of his career.” “The Thelonious Monk of fiction.” |
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Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon’s Novel Gravity’s Rainbow
Artist Zak Smith has created more than 750 pages of drawings, paintings, and photos—each derived from a page of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Smith aimed to be “as literal as possible,” but his images are as imaginative and powerful as the prose they honor. |
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Saving Angelfish It’s Christmastime in Los Angeles and Max is lying on the beach, attempting to survive one day without heroin. Her failure to do so inspires the adventures of a lifetime—a tour of the bizarre that inhabits the underbelly of LA glitz. “Mathson’s voice is dead-on, fresh, and completely winning. Michele Matheson is a find.” |
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Food & Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast A delectable collection of food and drink writing from the pages of the award-winning literary journal Tin House. |
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Mosquito Lyrical and explosive, Mosquito blends autobiography and poetry, bearing witness to a young man’s journey through serious illness and his emergence into a world where eroticism, hope, and wisdom allow him to see life in a wholly new way. “Broken and brilliant, protean and written in blood . . . Mosquito introduces a thrilling new voice in American poetry.” —Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City |
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Girls in Peril Set in Wisconsin, Girls in Peril is a novella about the special bonds between young women on the verge of adulthood. Karen Lee Boren weaves issues of sexuality, identity, and class into a magical and unforgettable web. “A convincing and haunting book." |
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Best of Tin House From the award-winning literary magazine comes another dazzling collection of stories by contemporary masters of the form. “Here you will find complicated, deep portraits of the human that sing of worth and hope and endurance.” |
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Suzy Zeus Gets Organized Heart-rending, hilarious, giddy, and compassionate. |
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Aunt Lettuce, I Want to Peek Under Your Skirt This provocative, playful collaboration between Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Simic and noted illustrator Michels is a saucy Valentine's treat. |
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The Ninth Life of Louis Drax Meet Louis Drax, the Amazing Accident-Prone Boy. |
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Cooking & Stealing: The Tin House Nonfiction Reader The best of the terrific nonfiction published in award-winning literary magazine Tin House–all under one cover. |
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The Forgotten Island A lush work of suspense viewed through the refracted lens of childhood memory. |
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Low Down: Junk, Jazz, and Other Fairy Tales from Childhood Low Down is an extended improvisation on growing up among jazz royalty. |
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I Was Howard Hughes 'A madly inventive mock bio...enormously effective. Darkly diverting.' |
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Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities Olena Kalytiak Davis' second collection of poems. |
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Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader From the award-winning literary magazine Tin House comes an indispensable collection of established and emerging fiction stars. |
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