2014 Catalog

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2014 Catalog

Summer 2013 – Fall 2014
Contents
new releases
You Only Get Letters from Jail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
The Virgins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Revolution of Every Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Heart of Darkness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The Story About the Story II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
This Is Between Us. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Low Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Dismal Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Someone Else’s Wedding Vows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The Understory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
American Dream Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Us Conductors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
The Other Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
The Search for Heinrich Schlögel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Sister Golden Hair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
The Wilds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Loitering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
A Literary Arts Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Tin House Magazine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
b a c k l i s t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contact and Distribution Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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You Only Get Letters from Jail
Stories by Jodi Angel
Praise for You Only Get Letters from Jail
“In this accomplished, moving collection of stories about boys, Angel proves the
uselessness of the old dictum that you should write what you know.”
—New York Times
“Best Book of Summer . . . Prose stripped down to the primer. Dialogue that
burns like cheap whiskey. Teenaged guys with dirt under their fingernails
and Doritos stains on their shirts trying to keep it together as they lose their
mothers to death and drugs, as they lose themselves in a culture that doesn’t
give much of a damn about men without manicures. Jodi Angel does give a
damn: She has these stories to prove it.”
—Esquire
288 pages • $14.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • July 2013 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-57-2
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odi Angel’s second story collection, You Only Get Letters from Jail, chronicles the lives
of young men trapped in the liminal space between adolescence and adulthood. From
picking up women at a bar hours after mom’s overdose to coveting a drowned girl to catching
rattlesnakes with gasoline, Angel’s characters are motivated by muscle cars, manipulative
women, and the hope of escape from circumstances that force them either to grow up
or give up. Haunted by unfulfilled dreams and disappointments, and often acting out of
mixed intentions and questionable motives, these boys turned young men are nevertheless
portrayed with depth, tenderness, and humanity. Angel’s gritty and heartbreaking prose
leaves readers empathizing with people they wouldn’t ordinarily trust or believe in.
“Jodi Angel writes like an angel—in the
full sense of the designation—which
is to say someone fallen out of the
armpit of a restless deity—sharp-eyed,
ruthless, and tender at the same time.
I’d walk a long way to hear her read
these stories, and plan to buy a half
dozen copies just so I can give them
away saying, ‘Look at this. You have
never before read anything like this.’”
—Dorothy Allison
About the Author: Jodi Angel’s first collection of short stories, The History of Vegas, was
published in 2005 and was named a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005 as well as an
LA Times Book Review Discovery. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Zoetrope: All-Story,
One Story, Byliner, and the Sycamore Review, among other publications and anthologies. Her
stories have received several Pushcart Prize nominations and she was selected for Special
Mention in 2007. Most recently, her story “A Good Deuce” was noted as a Distinguished Story
in The Best American Short Stories 2012. She grew up in a small town in Northern California—in
a family of girls.
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“Angel bravely does what many writers
are afraid to do. In tough, sometimes
brutally lyrical language, she gives
young, desperate voices—including
their slang—full rein of the stage.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
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The Virgins
A novel by Pamela Erens
Praise for The Virgins
“The Virgins is both skillfully crafted and dangerous . . . . Pamela Erens [has] told
a devastating story. The Virgins is a brutal book, but it’s flawlessly executed and
irrefutably true.”
—John Irving, New York Times Book Review
“In her second novel, The Virgins, Pamela Erens paints an arresting portrait of
adolescent sexuality—at once beautiful, erotic, awkward, and shameful. With
its racial tensions, vile narrator, and tragic climax, The Virgins reads like a prep
school Othello, set to a soundtrack of Devo and Jethro Tull.”
—Leigh Stein, Los Angeles Review of Books
280 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • August 2013 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-62-6
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t’s 1979, and Aviva Rossner and Seung Jung are notorious at Auburn Academy. They’re an
unlikely pair at an elite East Coast boarding school (she’s Jewish; he’s Korean American)
and hardly shy when it comes to their sexuality. Aviva is a formerly bookish girl looking
for liberation from an unhappy childhood; Seung is an enthusiastic dabbler in drugs and
a covert rebel against his demanding immigrant parents. In the minds of their titillated
classmates—particularly that of Bruce Bennett-Jones—the couple lives in a realm of pure,
indulgent pleasure. But, as is often the case, their fabled relationship is more complicated
than it seems: despite their lust and urgency, their virginity remains intact, and as they
struggle to understand each other, the relationship spirals into disaster.
The Virgins is the story of Aviva and Seung’s descent into confusion and shame, as
reimagined in richly detailed episodes by their classmate Bruce, a once-embittered voyeur
turned repentant narrator. With unflinching honesty and breathtaking prose, Pamela Erens
brings a fresh voice to the tradition of the great boarding school novel.
About the Author: Pamela Erens was raised in Chicago and attended Phillips Exeter Academy
and Yale University, where she concentrated on literary theory and women’s studies. For
many years she worked as a magazine editor, including at Glamour. Her editing and freelance
journalism have won national awards.
Erens’s first novel, The Understory, published in 2007, was the winner of the Ironweed
Press Fiction Prize and a finalist for both the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction
and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Erens has also published short fiction,
poetry, and essays in literary journals and magazines ranging from Chicago Review and New
England Review to O: The Oprah Magazine. She is the recipient of two New Jersey State Council
on the Arts fellowships in fiction and was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’
Conference
“Erens writes with great believability
and sensitivity about the teenage years,
when school and family pressures,
along with sexual awakening, can
seem like life-and-death issues.
Whether she’s describing a visit to an
ice cream stand or Seung and Aviva’s
explorations of lovemaking, her prose
is sensual and lyrical. . . . Many readers
will want to investigate this work.”
—Library Journal
"With The Virgins, Pamela Erens’
intricate second novel, she has done
a star turn with the prep school tale,
giving it meaning for those who might
not usually care about that world.”
—Chicago Tribune,
Editor’s Choice
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The Revolution of Every Day
A novel by Cari Luna
Praise for The Revolution of Every Day
“Luna shows how youthful dreams and a life lived just above the poverty line
can ossify into something heart-breaking. ‘They’ve been so busy surviving they
haven’t noticed their lives hardening around them, fixing them into place’, she
writes about the oldest residents. ‘They are now all they’re ever going to be.’ In
the end, the novel examines how years of fighting for what you believe in both
devastates and transforms, as each of these characters struggles to find a place
to call home.”
—Oprah Book of the Week
“Excellent debut novel . . . Her characters are deeply sympathetic and richly
drawn, portrayed as struggling New Yorkers first, political outliers second.”
—Los Angeles Times
392 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • October 2013 • Rights: World • 978-1-935639-64-0
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n the midnineties, New York’s Lower East Side contained a city within its shadows: a
community of squatters who staked their claims on abandoned tenements and lived and
worked within their own parameters, accountable to no one but each other. On May 30, 1995,
the NYPD rolled an armored tank down East Thirteenth Street and hundreds of police officers
in riot gear mobilized to evict a few dozen squatters from two buildings. With gritty prose and
vivid descriptions, Cari Luna’s debut novel, The Revolution of Every Day, imagines the lives
of five squatters from that time. But almost more threatening than the city lawyers and the
private developers trying to evict them are the rifts within their community. Amelia, taken
in by Gerrit as a teen runaway seven years earlier, is now pregnant by his best friend, Steve.
Anne, married to Steve, is questioning her commitment to the squatter lifestyle. Cat, a fading
legend of the downtown scene and unwitting leader of one of the squats, succumbs to heroin.
The misunderstandings and assumptions, the secrets and the dissolution of the hope that
originally bound these five threaten to destroy their homes as surely as the city’s battering
rams. Amid this chaos, Amelia struggles with her ambivalence about becoming a mother while
knowing that her pregnancy has given her fellow squatters a renewed purpose to their fight—
securing the squats for the next generation. Told from multiple points of view, The Revolution
of Every Day shows readers a life that few people, including the New Yorkers who passed the
squats every day, know about or understand.
“Luna exposes us, with tenderness and
eyes open wide, to the strange and vivid
beauty of a time and place we may
otherwise turn from. She provides us
with a satisfying opportunity to explore
a foreign world.”
—The Oregonian (one of the top
Ten Northwest books of 2013)
“Luna creates an array of complex
characters caught up in emotions,
relationships and situations far from
the ordinary as they examine their
commitment to their merged family
and explore their own ideals and
expectations. Enlightening and marked
by inventive subject matter, intense
reflection and stark eloquence.”
—Kirkus Reviews
About the Author: Cari Luna received an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. Her short fiction
has appeared in failbetter, Avery Anthology, PANK, and Novembre Magazine. New York-born, she
now lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, their two children, a cat, and four chickens.
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Heart of Darkness
A novel by Joseph Conrad
Illustrated by Matt Kish
Praise for Heart of Darkness
“The brilliant mind behind Moby-Dick in Pictures is back to illustrate Joseph
Conrad’s classic.”
—Flavorwire
232 pages • $24.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Hardcover • October 2013 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-66-4
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ollowing his massive—and massively successful—Moby-Dick in Pictures, artist
Matt Kish has set himself upon an equally impressive, and no less harrowing, task:
illustrating each page of Joseph Conrad’s masterpiece, Heart of Darkness. Kish’s rich,
imaginative drawings and paintings mirror Conrad’s original text and illuminate Marlow’s
journey into the heart of the Congo, and into the depths of the human soul. Heart of Darkness
is a text ripe for analysis and argument, formally and thematically; it explores matters
of imperialism, racism, gender, and the duality of human nature. Kish’s illustrations add
another layer, and another voice to the conversation. Heart of Darkness is an essential
edition for fans and students of Conrad’s work, but is, above all, a piece of art all its own.
Kish’s introduction lends context to his approach, details his relationship and struggle
with Conrad’s work, and illuminates his own creative process. An index in the rear of the
book catalogs the sentences and phrases that inspired each of the one hundred original
pieces of art.
“Darkness never looked so good: Matt
Kish’s illustrated edition of Joseph
Conrad’s classic follows the template
he created with Moby-Dick In Pictures.”
—National Post
About the Illustrator: Matt Kish was born in 1969 and lives in the middle of Ohio. After stints as
a cafeteria cook, a hospital registrar, a bookstore manager, and an English teacher, he ended up as
a librarian. He draws as often as he can, often with whatever he can find. He has tried his hand at
35mm black-and-white photography (with real film and real chemicals), making comics and zines,
a bit of collage, and lots of pen and ink.
About the Author: Joseph Conrad is widely accepted to be one of the greatest writers in the
English language. Along with Heart of Darkness, he’s the author of Lord Jim, Nostromo, and
numerous other novels, stories, and essays.
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The Story About the Story,
Vol. II
Edited by J. C. Hallman
Praise for The Story About the Story, Vol. II
“More than just a beautiful read . . . The series is in its own way important to the
world. Because if there’s any justice out there, it’ll eventually find its way into
those dull high-school curricula. To counteract the joyless misreadings and
picking of scabs that have become today’s literary criticism, Hallman is collecting
writing about books that is every bit as personal, humane and emotionally rich as
the books themselves.”
—Willamette Week
328 pages • $18.95 • 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” • Trade Paper • November 2013 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-68-8
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n the second volume of The Story About the Story, editor J. C. Hallman continues to
argue for an alternative to the staid five-paragraph-essay writing that has inoculated so
many against the effects of good books. Writers have long approached writing about reading
from an intensely personal perspective, incorporating their pasts and their passions into
their process of interpretation. Never before collected in a single volume, the many essays
Hallman has compiled build on the idea of a “creative criticism” and offer new possibilities
for how to write about reading.
The Story About the Story, Vol. II documents not only an identifiable trend in writing
about books that can and should be emulated, it also offers lessons from a remarkable range
of celebrated authors that amount to an invaluable course on both how to write and how to
read well. Whether they discuss a staple of the canon (Thomas Mann on Leo Tolstoy), the
merits of a contemporary (Vivian Gornick on Grace Paley), a pillar of genre-writing (Jane
Tompkins on Louis L’Amour), or, arguably, the funniest man on the planet (David Shields on
Bill Murray), these essays are by turns poignant, smart, suggestive, intellectual, humorous,
sassy, scathing, laudatory, wistful, and hopeful—and above all deeply engaged in a process of
careful reading. The essays in The Story About the Story, Vol. II chart a trajectory that digs
deep into the past and aims toward a future in which literature can play a new and more
profound role in how we think, read, live, and write.
About the Author: In addition to editing The Story About the Story, J. C. Hallman is the author
of several books, including The Chess Artist, In Utopia, Wm & H’ry, and B & Me: A True Story of
Literary Arousal.
Contributors Include: Wendy Lesser, Philip Lopate, John Berryman, David Shields, Zadie
Smith, Charles Baxter, Thomas Mann, Jane Tompkins, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin Amis, Margaret
Atwood, Michael Dirda, Walter Benjamin, Nicholson Baker, James Thurber, Elizabeth Hardwick,
David Foster Wallace, Jacque Barzun, Vivian Gornick, H. L. Mencken, Susan Cheever, Ralph
Ellison, Joseph Conrad, Francisco Goldman, Katherine Anne Porter, and Harold Bloom.
“There is no better path to the heart
of a great writer’s expression than
keen intuition born of deep regard,
and no one more likely to have both
than a fellow writer. This collection
of master reader-writers appraising
their admirations is not in the least
predictable. Turn the pages: surprise,
surprise, surprise!”
—Sven Birkerts, author of
Reading Life: Books for the Ages and
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of
Reading in an Electronic Age
“A novel, yes. A film, yes. But when
have you ever been sorry for a book
of essays to end? I was with this book.
Each of these essays investigates good
writing by writing well about it. They
are all formally elegant and smart,
smart, smart. And a delight to read.”
—Mary Jo Bang, author of Elegy
“The problem with this book: too many
irresistible things.”
—James Salter, author of
A Sport and a Pastime
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This Is Between Us
A novel by Kevin Sampsell
Praise for This Is Between Us
“In This Is Between Us Kevin Sampsell writes with grace and intimacy about
the toughest subject of all—love—and manages to capture a relationship in its
natural state: wry and wistful, strange and sexy, humming with desire, quaking
with vulnerability.”
—Jess Walter, author of the New York Times best-seller Beautiful Ruins
“Sampsell moves on from the personal essays of his book A Common Pornography,
and gives readers this sad and sweet tale of a love that doesn’t seem right.”
—Flavorwire (picked as one of the 10 Must-Read Books for November 2013)
“The warmer moments in this novel have all the real-life glow of a flowering
relationship. Sampsell’s crafting of these scenes is commendable. He is unafraid
of the ‘unmentionables,’ and gracefully and bravely takes on these characters’
many sex scenes.”
—Bustle
240 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • November 2013 • Rights: World • 978-1-935639-70-1
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hronicling five years of a troubled romance, This Is Between Us offers an intimate view
of one couple’s struggle—from the illicit beginnings of sexual obsession to the fragile
architecture of a pieced-together family. Full of sweet moments, emotional time bombs,
unexpected humor, and blunt sexuality, the daily life of this man and woman, both recently
divorced, with children and baggage in tow, emerges in all of its complexity. In this utterly
engrossing debut novel, Kevin Sampsell delivers a confessional tale of love between two
resilient people who have staked their hearts on each other.
About the Author: Kevin Sampsell is the author of the memoir A Common Pornography
(2010, Harper Perennial) and the short story collection Creamy Bullets (Chiasmus) and the
editor of the anthology Portland Noir (Akashic). Sampsell is the publisher of the micropress
Future Tense Books, which he started in 1990. He has worked at Powell’s Books as an events
coordinator and the head of the small press section for fifteen years. His essays have appeared
recently in Salon, the Faster Times, Jewcy, and the Good Men Project. His fiction has been
published in McSweeney’s, Nerve, Hobart, and in several anthologies. He lives in Portland,
Oregon, with his wife and son.
“Here is the quiet, funny, heartbreak
truth of Real Love. Read it and weep.”
—Amelia Gray, author of THREATS
“This Is Between Us is an imperturbable,
strange, melancholy (but never
maudlin) piece of work. Kevin
Sampsell straddles the line between
candor and oversharing with an artful
grace I found infectious.”
—Patrick deWitt, author of
The Sisters Brothers
“Kevin Sampsell unflinchingly
examines love from every angle—
sacred and profane, transcendent and
mundane. This Is Between Us asserts
that messy, terrifying, imperfect love is
worth it, after all. After reading it, you’ll
be a believer.”
—Jillian Lauren, New York Times
best-selling author of
Some Girls and Pretty
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Low Down
A memoir by A. J. Albany
Soon to be a major motion picture
Starring John Hawkes, Elle Fanning, Glenn Close, Peter Dinklage, and Flea
Praise for Low Down
“Her prose resembles the shimmering complexity of bop, with its feelings of
tight yet improvisational dartings through memory. From the slag heap of the
junkie lifestyle, she manages to spin literary gold.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Truly affecting . . . Though slim, Albany's well-wrought memoir contains
emotional and lyrical volumes.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Lots of drugs and loneliness, some jazz: the author has perceptively written
what she knows.”
—Booklist
176 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • November 2013 • Rights: World • 978-1-935639-76-3
A. J. Albany’s recollection of life with her father, the great jazz pianist Joe Albany, is the story
of one girl's unsentimental education. Joe played with the likes of Charles Mingus, Lester
Young, and Charlie Parker, but between gigs he slipped into drug-induced obscurity. It was
during these times that his daughter knew him best. After her mother disappeared, six-yearold Amy Jo and her charming, troubled father set up housekeeping in a seamy Hollywood
hotel. While Joe finished a set in some red-boothed dive, chances were you’d find Amy curled
up to sleep on someone's fur coat, clutching a 78 of Louis Armstrong's “Sugar Blues” or, later, a
photograph of the man himself, inscribed, “To little Amy-Jo, always in love with you—Pops.”
Wise beyond her years and hip to the unpredictable ways of Old Lady Life at all too
early an age, Albany guides us through the dope and deviance of the late 1960s and early
’70s in Hollywood's shadowy underbelly and beyond. What emerges is a raw, gripping,
and surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a young girl trying to survive among the outcasts,
misfits, and artists who surrounded her.
About the Author: A. J. Albany lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two children,
Charlie and Dylan.
“Harrowing . . . an authentic trip
through Hollywood’s lower depths.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Only the slyest and boldest writing
about music, and families, comes
to mind as you read Low Down:
James Baldwin’s ‘Sonny’s Blues,’ or
David Goodis’s Down There. Yet A.
J. Albany’s spirit and voice are fully
her own—fierce, funny, troubling, sad,
rueful, joyous.”
—Robert Polito
“Albany re-creates a landscape of her
childhood where misery is a faraway
sound floating above a voice speaking
in tones of affection, terror, rage, love,
and, most of all, a hipster's defiance.”
—Greil Marcus
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The Dismal Science
A novel by Peter Mountford
Praise for The Dismal Science
“Mountford has written a distinctively entertaining novel that illuminates the
spiritual odyssey of a contemporary Dodsworth.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“In his fiercely intelligent second novel (after A Young Man’s Guide to Late
Capitalism), Mountford examines, with wry humor and sympathy leavened with
a realistic accounting of Vincenzo d’Orsi’s flaws and failings, the repercussions
of a decision made in haste and—perhaps—regretted at leisure. Or not regretted.
Who could have ever predicted that an economist at the World Bank could be
such a terrific main character? I absolutely loved The Dismal Science.”
—Nancy Pearl, NPR commentator and author of the Book Lust series
288 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • February 2014 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-72-5
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he Dismal Science tells of a middle-aged vice president at the World Bank, Vincenzo
D’Orsi, who publicly quits his job over a seemingly minor argument with a colleague.
A scandal inevitably ensues, and he systematically burns every bridge to his former life.
After abandoning his career, Vincenzo, a recent widower, is at a complete loss as to what to
do with himself. The story follows his efforts to rebuild his identity without a vocation or the
company of his wife.
An exploration of the fragile nature of identity, The Dismal Science reveals the
terrifying speed with which a person’s sense of self can be annihilated. It is at once a study
of a man attempting to apply his reason to the muddle of life and a book about how that
same ostensible rationality, and the mathematics of finance in particular, operates—with
similarly dubious results—in our world.
About the Author: Peter Mountford’s debut novel, A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism,
was the winner of the Washington State Book Award and a finalist for the VCU Cabell First
Novelist Award. NPR.org selected it for the “Books We Like” series, the Daily Beast picked it as
a “great summer read,” and the editors at Kindle named it one of the most exciting books of the
season; it was also featured in the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Town and Country,
Interview, and the Wall Street Journal, among other venues.
“A savvy, fast-paced novel . . . a bracingly
intelligent novel.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“The Dismal Science is exuberant art, a
deep, moving comedy about grief, guilt,
and the heart's geopolitics. Mountford
writes with soul and style and makes
the plight of his protagonist count.”
—Sam Lipsyte, New York Times
best-selling author of The Ask
“Quietly wrenching, sharply drawn, and
completely un-put-downable. With
The Dismal Science, Peter Mountford
asserts himself as our generation’s
most significant business-world
ombudsman. A deft and unflinching
exponent of the human side of a
polarizing world few of us actually
understand.”
—Tea Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife
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Someone Else’s Wedding Vows
Poems by Bianca Stone
Praise for Someone Else’s Wedding Vows
“I see in Bianca Stone’s work the natural weirdness and leaping of our minds.
But wilder! It’s as if she can take her mind out of gear, out of its prosaic
limitations, and overhear, and sing, the strange true thoughts and feelings we
have when we’re at our most genuine and unprotected. In her poems we’re in
the presence of a naked human voice, not concealing itself—or overreaching
to expose itself—which dives as deep as voices go. Bianca Stone’s poems are
powerful, moving, and original.”
—Sharon Olds, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Stag’s Leap
“Stone’s poems astutely and honestly address the longing and cost of human
connections.”
88 pages • $14.95 • 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” • Trade Paper • March 2014 • Rights: World • 978-1-935639-74-9
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omeone Else’s Wedding Vows reflects on the different forms of love, which can be both
tremendously joyous and devastatingly destructive. The title poem confronts a human
ritual of marriage from the standpoint of a wedding photographer. Within the tedium and
alienation of the ceremony, the speaker grapples with a strange human hopefulness. In
this vein, Stone explores our everyday patterns and customs, and in doing so, exposes them
for their complexities. Drawing on the neurological, scientific, psychological, and even
supernatural, this collection confronts the difficulties of love and family. Stone rankles
with a desire to understand, but the questions she asks are never answered simply. These
poems stroll along the abyss, pointing toward the absurdity of our choices. They recede into
the imaginative in order to understand and translate the distressing nature of reality. It is
a bittersweet question this book raises: Why we are like this? There is no easy answer. So
while we look down at our hands, perplexed, Someone Else’s Wedding Vows raises a glass to
the future.
About the Author: Heavily influenced by a family of writers and artists, including the late poet
Ruth Stone, Bianca Stone began writing poems at a very early age. She collaborated with the
poet and essayist Anne Carson on Antigonick, published by New Directions in 2012. She lives in
New York City.
“Let’s say hypersensitivity ranks
high up among poetry’s necessary
attributes. Let’s say that to ride the
back of a parable and make it past the
bell rates further fervent notice, and
let’s say we want to pay attention to
a poet who says we will perceive our
own pain in others/and we will know
if we are capable of loving them. Open
the book, read this poem: ‘Reading a
Science Article on the Airplane to JFK,’
and then I’m confident you’ll want to
spend a lot of time with Bianca Stone’s
astonishing debut book.”
—Dara Wier, author of
Remnants of Hannah
“Bianca Stone’s poetry has the glow of
21st-century enlightenment and lyric
possession. Hilarious and powerful,
Someone Else’s Wedding Vows will have
you come to terms with the vehemence
of her magic.”
—Major Jackson, author of
Holding Company
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The Understory
A novel by Pamela Erens
Praise for The Understory
“Hauntingly abject . . . skillfully rendered . . . a sensitive, restrained debut.”
“An elegant, understated study of physical and psychic dislocations . . . artfully
detailed and beautifully rendered.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Pamela Erens’s The Understory is at once an exquisite portrait of a man driven by
forces beyond his control, an homage to Manhattan’s secret places, and a deftly
braided narrative that keeps the reader hungry to find out what happens next.”
—Rilla Askew, author of Fire in Beulah, winner of the American Book Award
176 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • April 2014 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-85-5
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he Understory—the debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Virgins —is
the haunting portrayal of Jack Gorse, an ex-lawyer, now unemployed, who walls off his
inner life with elaborate rituals and routines. Every day he takes the same walk from his Upper
West Side apartment to the Brooklyn Bridge. He follows the same path through Central Park;
he stops to browse in the same bookstore, to eat lunch in the same diner. Threatened with
eviction from his longtime apartment and caught off-guard by an attraction to a near stranger,
Gorse takes steps that lead to the dramatic dissolution of the only existence he’s known. As
the narrative alternates between his days in New York City and his present life in a Vermont
Buddhist Monastery, The Understory unfolds as both a mystery and a psychological study,
revealing that repression and self-expression can be equally destructive.
About the Author: Pamela Erens’s first novel was a finalist for both the 2007 Los Angeles
Times Book Prize for First Fiction and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Her
widely acclaimed second novel, The Virgins, was a New York Times and a Chicago Tribune
Editors’ Choice. For many years she worked as a magazine editor, including at Glamour. She
lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.
“I am amazed and moved by Pamela
Erens’s The Understory. It brings to
mind (and stands up well next to)
such literary ancestors as Hamsun’s
Hunger, or Beckett’s stories of the
evicted, but it is uniquely tender in its
treatment of the isolated mind’s quest
to keep alive what is most radiant and
most fragile in the face of the brutal
catastrophe of reality. Erens brings
extraordinary powers of empathy and
technical mastery to the character of
Jack Gorse—normally the person we
pass on the street and, after a token
moment of pity, attempt to forget as
rapidly as possible. In this book there
is no turning away from him, or more
accurately and terribly, from the world
as he perceives it.”
—Franz Wright, author of
Walking to Martha’s Vineyard,
winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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American Dream Machine
A novel by Matthew Specktor
Praise for American Dream Machine
“Sprawling, atmospheric . . . [American Dream Machine has] a feline
watchfulness and a poetic sensibility that echoes Bellow’s and Updike’s prose
rhythms along with their voracious, exuberant intelligence.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Richly engaging . . . Specktor sees his Hollywood characters as threedimensional and very human.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“With coolness and precision, Specktor comes across as a West Coast Saul
Bellow in this sweeping narrative, but his energetic, pop-infused prose is
markedly his own.”
—Booklist
466 pages • $25.95 • 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” • Trade Paper • April 2014 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-44-2
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eau Rosenwald—overweight, not particularly handsome, and improbably charismatic—
arrives in Los Angeles in 1962 with nothing but an ill-fitting suit and a pair of expensive
brogues. By the late 1970s he has helped found the most successful agency in Hollywood.
Through the eyes of his son, we watch Beau and his partner go to war, waging a seismic battle
that redraws the lines of an entire industry. We watch Beau rise and fall and rise again, in
accordance with the cultural transformations that dictate the fickle world of movies. We
watch Beau’s partner, the enigmatic and cerebral Williams Farquarsen, struggle to contain
himself, to control his impulses and consolidate his power. And we watch two generations
of men fumble and thrive across the LA landscape, learning for themselves the shadows and
costs exacted by success and failure. Mammalian, funny, and filled with characters both vital
and profound, American Dream Machine is a piercing interrogation of the role—nourishing, as
well as destructive—that illusion plays in all our lives.
About the Author: Matthew Specktor is the author of the novels American Dream Machine
and That Summertime Sound, as well as a book of film criticism. His writing has appeared or is
forthcoming in the Paris Review, the Believer, Tin House, Black Clock, and other publications.
He is a founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.
“Specktor’s prose alone is enough to
lure you in: it’s sharply observed and
nimble, like a more mischievous cousin
of John Cheever, and his characters are
wonderfully and deeply complicated,
wounded and secretive.”
—The Millions, Edan Lepucki’s
Year in Reading (picked as one
of the best books of 2013)
“Specktor’s book deserves a special
space in the LA canon, somewhere
looking up at Pynchon and Chandler.
Even as the narrator searches through
his past to uncover the truth about his
family, the author is searching, too.”
—LA Weekly
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Whitman Illuminated:
Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman
Illustrated by Allen Crawford
Praise for Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself
“Allen Crawford brings you the words of Walt Whitman beautifully arranged and
illustrated in Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself ”
—Buzzfeed
256 pages • $28.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Hardcover • May 2014 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-78-7
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alt Whitman’s iconic collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, has earned a reputation as
a sacred American text. Whitman himself made such comparisons, going so far as
to use biblical verse as a model for his own. So it’s only appropriate that artist and illustrator
Allen Crawford has chosen to illuminate—like medieval monks with their holy scriptures—
Whitman’s masterpiece and the core of his poetic vision, “Song of Myself.” Crawford has
turned the original sixty-page poem from Whitman’s 1855 edition into a sprawling 256-page
work of art. The handwritten text and illustrations intermingle in a way that’s both surprising
and wholly in tune with the spirit of the poem—they’re exuberant, rough, and wild. Whitman
Illuminated: Song of Myself is a sensational reading experience, an artifact in its own right, and
a masterful tribute to the Good Gray Poet.
“Crawford’s tribute is a beautiful piece
of art that every Whitman lover will
want on their bookshelf.”
—Flavorwire
About the Illustrator: Allen Crawford is an illustrator, designer, and writer. He and his wife
Susan are proprietors of the design/illustration studio Plankton Art Co. Their most notable
project to date is the collection of 400 species identification illustrations that are on permanent
display at the American Museum of Natural History’s Milstein Hall of Ocean Life. Under his
pseudonym, Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy, he wrote, designed, and illustrated The Affected
Provincial’s Companion, Volume One, which was optioned for film by Johnny Depp’s production
company, Infinitum Nihil. He lives in Mt. Holly, New Jersey.
About the Author: Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist,
he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both
views in his works.
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Us Conductors
A novel by Sean Michaels
Praise for Us Conductors
“Us Conductors stretches its arms to encompass nearly everything—it is an
immigrant tale, an epic, a spy intrigue, a prison confession, an inventor’s
manual, a creation myth, and an obituary—but the electric current humming
through its heart is an achingly resonant love story. Sean Michaels orchestrates
his first novel like a virtuoso.”
—Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“A fascinating novel! Told with grace and confidence, and in a finely wrought
voice, Us Conductors kept surprising me to the end. I was swept from the
speakeasies and artistic fervor of 1930s Manhattan to bleak, secretive Soviet
Union prisons, and never once was the illusion shattered. Throughout the story,
the themes of love and music sing like the pure, ethereal notes of the theremin.”
—Eowyn Ivey, author of the New York Times bestseller The Snow Child
456 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • June 2014 • Rights: United States • 978-1-935639-81-7
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ocked in a cabin aboard a ship bearing him back to Russia and away from the love of
his life, Lev Sergeyvich Termen begins to type his story: a tale of electricity, romance,
and the invention of the world’s strangest instrument, the theremin. He recollects his early
years as a scientist forging breakthroughs during the Bolshevik Revolution and his decade as
a Manhattan celebrity and reluctant Soviet spy. Against the backdrop of Prohibition and the
1929 Crash, Termen spends his days in his workshop, devising inventions, and his nights in
Harlem clubs, jostling with famous bandleaders and falling in love with the young violinist
Clara Reisenberg. When the boat reaches his homeland, Termen finds it is not the Russia
he remembers. He is imprisoned in the Gulag system, sent first to a Siberian work camp and
then to a secret laboratory. In the face of all this, his love for Clara remains constant, passing
through the ether like the theremin’s song.
Steeped in beauty, wonder, and looping heartbreak, Sean Michaels’s debut novel explores
the lies we tell, the truths we imagine, and the lengths we go to survive.
About the Author: Sean Michaels is a writer and music critic. A two-time National Magazine
Award winner, his work has been published by the Guardian, McSweeney's, the Walrus, Brick,
Pitchfork, the Believer, and many other outlets. In 2003, he founded the music-blog Said the
Gramophone. He lives in Montreal.
“I’ve been awaiting a book by Sean
Michaels for a decade, ever since he
helped create not only the online MP3
blog but his own form of criticism—
imaginative, bird-like devices of prose
that soar in and out of the paths of
songs. In his novel, Us Conductors,
Michaels finds his ideal subject in
another inventor, the enigmatic
Leon Termen, who with softly lit-up
wisdom calls himself ‘a sound being
sounded, music being made,’ amid the
noise of history. Michaels’s voice will
pass through you like live current and
conduct you to parts unknown.”
—Carl Wilson, music critic
for Slate.com and author of the
acclaimed Let’s Talk About Love:
Why Other People Have Such
Bad Taste
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The Other Side
A memoir by Lacy M. Johnson
Praise for The Other Side
“In this brilliant memoir, Lacy Johnson offers us a guide to the impossible—how
to reconstruct a past when the past itself is shattered, each memory broken
into pieces, left rattling around inside us. Sometimes flashes of poetry are
all that we can find in the wreckage, sometimes these flashes are all that can
possibly save us, brought together for brief, burning instances, and then let go.
The Other Side bristles with life and energy and to read it is to be transformed.”
—Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
232 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • July 2014 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-83-1
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acy Johnson was held prisoner in a soundproofed room in a basement apartment that
her ex-boyfriend rented and outfitted for the sole purpose of raping and killing her. She
escaped, but not unscathed. The Other Side is the haunting account of a first passionate and
then abusive relationship, the events leading to Johnson’s kidnapping and imprisonment,
her dramatic escape, and her hard-fought struggle to recover. At once thrilling, terrifying,
harrowing, and hopeful, The Other Side offers more than just a true crime record. In language
both stark and poetic, Johnson weaves together a richly personal narrative with police reports,
psychological evaluations, and neurobiological investigations, provoking both troubling and
timely questions about gender roles and the epidemic of violence against women.
About the Author: Lacy M. Johnson is the author of Trespasses: A Memoir. Her work has
appeared or is forthcoming in The Racial Imaginary, Literature: The Human Experience, Creative
Nonfiction, Sentence, TriQuarterly Online, Memoir Journal, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. She is
currently Director of Academic Initiatives at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at
University of Houston, where she teaches interdisciplinary art. She lives in Houston, Texas.
“Wow. Just . . . Wow. The Other Side
is the sonic boom of a powerful story
meeting an even more powerful
storyteller. It’s hard to say anything
about a book that leaves you this
breathless. Lacy Johnson is my new
literary hero.”
—Mat Johnson, author of PYM
“Lacy M. Johnson’s powerfully
moving and brilliantly structured
memoir, The Other Side, asks, ‘How is
it possible to reclaim the body after
devastating violence?’ Her intense
desire and demand for a life lived in
the body is triumphant. Johnson’s
strength not only to free her physical
self but also to move through years
of incapacitating fear by writing this
book, is breathtaking: ‘I lift the chain
from my neck, over my head, let it
rattle to the floor.’”
—Kelle Groom, author of I Wore the
Ocean in the Shape of a Girl
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The Search for
Heinrich Schlögel
A novel by Martha Baillie
Praise for The Search for Heinrich Schlögel
“Capacious, capricious, mischievous, The Search for Heinrich Schlögel moves like
a quantum experiment, defying boundaries of time, place, chronology. Fluid as
light itself, animated by startling imagery, vivid and peculiar characters, The
Search for Heinrich Schlögel is a hymn to brooding memory, the enduring need
to inhabit story, and a haunting insistence upon endless possibilities within
possibility. That is to say, hope.”
—Gina Ochsner, author of The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight
352 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • September 2014 • Rights: United States • 978-1-935639-90-9
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sophisticated story with magical underpinnings, Martha Baillie’s hypnotic novel follows
Heinrich Schlögel from Germany to Canada, where he sets out on a two-week hike into
the isolated interior of Baffin Island. His journey quickly becomes surreal; he experiences
strange encounters and inexplicable visions as shards of Arctic history emerge from the
shifting landscape. When he returns from his hike, he discovers that, though he has not
aged, thirty years have passed. Narrated by an unnamed archivist who is attempting to piece
together the truth of Heinrich’s life, The Search for Heinrich Schlögel dances between reality
and dream, asking us to consider our role in imagining the future into existence as well as the
consequences of our past choices.
“Martha Baillie’s extraordinary The
Search for Heinrich Schlögel is not
quite like any other book I’ve read. It
invites us on a hallucinatory journey to
the Arctic and through time. It asks us
to live with mystery and wonder, which
is what a work of art does. If it reminds
me of anything, it is the fabulous,
shape-shifting novels of the Icelandic
writer Sjón.”
—Catherine Bush, author of The
Rules of Engagement and Accusation
About the Author: Martha Baillie is the author of four novels and has been published in
Canada, Germany, and Hungary. Her poems have appeared frequently in journals such as
Descant, Prairie Fire, and the Antigonish Review. Her nonfiction piece “The Legacy of Joseph
Wagenbach” was published by Brick: a literary journal. Her most recent novel, The Incident
Report, was a Globe and Mail Best Book and was long-listed for the Giller Prize. She lives in
Toronto.
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Sister Golden Hair
A novel by Darcey Steinke
Praise for Sister Golden Hair
“[Sister Golden Hair] absolutely dazzled me . . . a searingly accurate portrait
of a time and a way of thinking—a moment in American history when gleeful
abandon had decayed into regular old abandon, and when new cultural freedoms
suddenly seemed more dangerous than intoxicating.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love and The Signature of All Things
336 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • October 2014 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-94-7
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hen Jesse’s family moves to Roanoke, Virginia, in the summer of 1972, she’s twelve
years old and already mindful of the schism between innocence and femininity, the gap
between childhood and the world of adults. Her father, a former pastor, cycles through spiritual
disciplines as quickly as he cycles through jobs. Her mother is chronically dissatisfied, glumly
fetishizing the Kennedys and anyone else who symbolizes status and wealth. The residents of
the Bent Tree housing development may not seem like beacons of the secret knowledge that
Jesse is looking for, but they’re all she’s got. Her neighbor tans on the front lawn and tells tales of
her married lover; her classmate playacts being a Bunny at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Club; the boy
she’s interested in fantasizes about moving to Hollywood and befriending David Soul.
In the midst of her half-understanding, Jesse finds space to set up her room with her
secret treasures: a Venus flytrap, her Cher 45s, and The Big Book of Burial Rites. But outside
await new sexual mores, muddled social customs, and confused spirituality. It’s a terrifying
time—in the shadow of Manson and the hangover from the idealistic sixties—when alienation
overtakes liberation. Girlhood has never been more fraught than in Jesse’s telling, its
expectations threatening to turn at any point into delicious risk, or real danger. Darcey Steinke
captures all of this with an intimate, startling grace.
About the Author: Darcey Steinke is the author of the memoir Easter Everywhere (a New York
Times notable book) and the novels Milk, Jesus Saves, Suicide Blonde, and Up Through the
Water (also a New York Times notable book). With Rick Moody, she edited Joyful Noise: The New
Testament Revisited. Her books have been translated into ten languages, and her nonfiction has
appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Boston Review, Vogue, Spin, the Washington
Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Guardian. Her web-story “Blindspot” was a part of the 2000
Whitney Biennial. She has been both a Henry Hoyns and a Stegner fellow, as well as writer-inresidence at the University of Mississippi, and has taught at the Columbia University School of
the Arts, Barnard, the American University of Paris, and Princeton. She lives in New York City.
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The Wilds
Stories by Julia Elliott
Praise for The Wilds
“Julia Elliott’s magical debut collection, The Wilds, brings together some of the
most original, hilarious, and mind-bending stories written in the last two decades.
She journeys deep into mythic terrains with an explorer’s courage and a savant’s
wit, and the reports she sends back from imagination’s hinterlands are charged
with a vernacular that crackles with insight. Angela Carter, Kelly Link, and Karen
Russell are similar visionaries in the short story form, but Elliott is very much her
own irrepressible voice—and it’s one well worth heeding. The Wilds is simply a
milestone achievement.”
—Bradford Morrow, author of The Uninnocent
376 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • October 2014 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-92-3
At an obscure South Carolina nursing home, a lost world reemerges as a disabled elderly
woman undergoes newfangled brain-restoration procedures and begins to explore her
environment with the assistance of strap-on robot legs. At a deluxe medical spa on a nameless
Caribbean island, a middle-aged woman hopes to revitalize her fading youth with grotesque
rejuvenating therapies that combine cutting-edge medical technologies with holistic
approaches and the pseudo-religious dogma of Zen-infused self-help. And in a rinky-dink mill
town, an adolescent girl is unexpectedly inspired by the ravings and miraculous levitation of
her fundamentalist friend’s weird grandmother. These are only a few of the scenarios readers
encounter in Julia Elliott’s debut collection, The Wilds. In her genre-bending stories, Elliott
blends Southern gothic strangeness with dystopian absurdities, sci-fi speculations with fairytale transformations. Teetering between the ridiculous and the sublime, Elliott’s languagedriven fiction uses outlandish tropes to capture poignant moments in her humble characters’
lives. Without abandoning the tenets of classic storytelling, Elliott revels in lush lyricism, dark
humor, and experimental play.
“Julia Elliott’s stories—which thrive
beautifully somewhere between the
lyrically haunting works of Barry
Hannah and the retrospective works
of Lewis Nordan—offer nothing but
the great, beautiful, dark regions of
the human heart. These are stories
to be cherished, taught, and brooded
upon. These are stories in which to
bathe oneself.“
—George Singleton, author of
Stray Decorum
About the Author: Julia Elliott’s fiction has appeared in Tin House, the Georgia Review,
Conjunctions, Fence, Puerto del Sol, Mississippi Review, and other magazines. She has won
a Pushcart Prize and a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award. Her debut novel, The New and Improved
Romie Futch, will be published by Tin House Books in 2015, and she is currently working on a
novel about Hamadryas baboons, a species that she has studied as an amateur primatologist.
She teaches English and women’s and gender studies at the University of South Carolina in
Columbia, South Carolina, where she lives.
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Loitering
New & Collected Essays by Charles D’Ambrosio
Praise for Loitering
“Charles D’Ambrosio’s essays are excitingly good. They are relevant in the
way that makes you read them out loud, to anyone who happens to be around.
Absolutely accessible and incredibly intelligent, his work is an astounding relief—
as though someone is finally trying to puzzle all the disparate, desperate pieces of
the world together again.”
—Jill Owens, Powell’s
“There are some writers who can write about anything—intending to eat whale
meat and talking about procreation and writing instead, being turned into a
fictional character that is a shadow of oneself, etc.—and it doesn't matter what
they write about because their sentences are so brilliant. Charles D’Ambrosio’s
Loitering is a book that lives up to the title; one wants to linger over each essay until
their coffee is cold and their knees are stiff and the world disappears around them.”
—Michele Filgate, Community Bookstore
368 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • November 2014 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-87-9
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harles D’Ambrosio’s essay collection Orphans spawned something of a cult following.
In the decade since the tiny limited-edition volume sold out its print run, its devotees
have pressed it upon their friends, students, and colleagues, only to find themselves begging
for their copy’s safe return. For anyone familiar with D’Ambrosio’s writing, this enthusiasm
should come as no surprise. His work is exacting and emotionally generous, often as funny
as it is devastating. Loitering gathers the eleven original essays from Orphans with new and
previously uncollected work, so that a broader audience might discover one of our greatest
living essayists. No matter his subject—Native American whaling, a Pentecostal “hell house,”
Mary Kay Letourneau, the work of J. D. Salinger, or, most often, his own family—D’Ambrosio
approaches each piece with a singular voice and point of view; each essay, while unique and
surprising, is unmistakably his own.
About the Author: Charles D’Ambrosio is the author of two collections of short stories, The
Point (a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award) and The Dead Fish Museum (a
finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award), as well as the essay collection Orphans. His work has
appeared frequently in the New Yorker, as well as in Tin House, the Paris Review, Zoetrope:
All-Story, A Public Space, and Story. He’s been the recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award,
an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Lannan Foundation
Fellowship, and a USA Rasmuson Fellowship. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Praise for Orphans: Essays
“In this excellent collection of essays . . .
D’Ambrosio brings to the real world the
same idiosyncratic personal language
and keen, melancholic intelligence of
his fiction . . . D’Ambrosio’s perceptive
insistence on the primacy of the
individual’s voice and viewpoint
sounds a resolutely humanistic tone.”
—Publishers Weekly,
Starred Review
“Orphans is a remarkable non-fiction
collection, always intriguing, often
surprising . . . D’Ambrosio is a major
league talent.”
—Seattle Post Intelligencer
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A Literary Arts Reader
A collection of highlights from the Literary Arts lecture series,
which has welcomed many of the world’s most renowned
authors and storytellers to its stage
272 pages • $18.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • November 2014 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-96-1
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ince 1984, Literary Arts has welcomed many of the world’s most renowned authors
and storytellers to its stage for one of the country’s largest lectures series. Sold-out
crowds congregate at Portland’s Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall to hear these writers discuss
their work and their thoughts on the trajectory of contemporary literature and culture. In
celebration of Literary Arts’ thirty-year anniversary, Tin House Books has collected highlights
from the series into a single volume. Whether it’s Wallace Stegner exploring how we use
fiction to make sense of life or Ursula K. Le Guin on where ideas come from, Margaret Atwood
on the need for complex female characters or Robert Stone on morality and truth in literature,
Edward P. Jones on the role of imagination in historical novels or Marilynne Robinson on the
nature of beauty, these essays illuminate not just the world of letters but the world at large.
from the Table of Contents
· Margaret Atwood
“Women Behaving Badly: The Need for
Complex ‘Evil’ Female Characters in
Literature”
· Russell Banks
“No, But I Saw the Movie”
· Marilynne Robinson
“On Beauty”
· Robert Stone
“Morality and Truth in Literature”
· Ursula K. Le Guin
“Where Do You Get Your Ideas From:
Fantasy as Literature, not Genre”
· Wallace Stegner
“Fiction to Make Sense of Life”
· Jeanette Winterson
“What Is Art For?”
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Tin House Magazine, 2014
Edited by Win McCormack, Rob Spillman, and Holly MacArthur
Memory
on newsstands
March 1—May 31, 2014
Wild
Winter Reading
Memory
Summer Reading
#57: September 2013
#58: December 2013
#59: March 2014
#60: June 2014
Untamed, unkempt, and just
plain wild. In this issue of Tin
House you’re along for the ride as
we take a peek into unruly worlds,
from Nevada brothels to rest
stops just outside of Portland,
Oregon. We uncover dispatches
from writers like Viña Delmar
and John Muir, reaching out from
their respective far-flung corners
of the world. Lost and Founds
such as Ursula K. Le Guin on
Harold Davis’s Honey in the Horn
and Emma Komlos-Hrobsky on
Rosemarie Waldrop’s A Form / Of
Taking / It All rough up our pages.
Get ready for a wild ride.
Keep the winter blues away
with new work from Stephen
Millhauser, Fiona Maazel,
Alexander Maksik, and
Jenny Offill. Plus a previously
unpublished story by the late
master Shirley Jackson and an
interview with Robert Stone.
Take a stroll down Memory
Lane with fiction by Diane Cook,
Diane and Joy Williams, and
Seth Fried, essays by Maggie
Nelson and Phillip Lopate, and a
special feature of fashion writing
with contributors Stephen King,
Cheryl Strayed, Colum McCann,
Kevin Barry, and Jodi Angel.
You're sure to have a summer
fling with this issue, chock-full
of new fiction by writers such as
Joan Silber and Ken Calhoun, an
interview with the Norwegian
phenom Karl Ove Knausgaard,
and a batch of poetry that'll give
your heart a sunburn.
For back issues and more, visit www.tinhouse.com
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BACKLIST
Agaat
Asta in the Wings
A novel by Marlene van Nierkerk
Translated by Michiel Heyns
A novel by Jan Elizabeth Watson
In the waning days of South
African apartheid, Milla, a
sixty-seven-year-old white
woman, is condemned to silence
by a creeping paralysis. As she
struggles to communicate with
her maidservant turned caretaker,
Agaat, the complicated history of
their relationship is revealed.
A poignant and darkly funny story
about Asta Hewitt, a resourceful
seven-year-old who is shut off
from the outside world and
restricted to the company of a
delusional mother and a bookish
older brother.
Best of Tin House
The Celestials
From the award-winning
literary magazine comes a
dazzling collection of stories by
contemporary masters of the form.
A novel by Karen Shepard
$18.95 • TP • 978-0-9773127-1-9
$14.00 • TP • 978-0-9802436-1-1
Combining historical and
fictional elements, The Celestials
beautifully reimagines the story of
Sampson’s “Chinese experiment”
and the effect of the newcomers’
threatening and exotic presence
on the New England locals.
$15.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-55-8
$19.95 • TP • 978-0-9825030-9-6
Bright Before Us
A novel by Katie Arnold-Ratliff
Beside the Sea
American Dream Machine
A novel by Matthew Specktor
The story of two talent agents
and their three troubled boys,
heirs to Hollywood royalty; a
sweeping narrative about fathers
and sons, the movie business,
and the sundry sea changes that
have shaped Hollywood and, by
extension, American life.
$25.95 • TC • 978-1-935639-44-2
A novel by Véronique Olmi
Translated by Adriana Hunter
Beside the Sea is a haunting and
thought-provoking story about
how a mother’s love for her
children can be more dangerous
than the dark world she is seeking
to keep at bay. It’s a hypnotizing
look at an unhinged mind and
the cold society that produced it.
With language as captivating as
the story that unfolds, Véronique
Olmi creates an intimate portrait
of madness and despair that won’t
soon be forgotten.
$12.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-42-8
Facing the prospect of fatherhood,
disillusioned by his fledgling
teaching career, and mourning
the loss of a former relationship,
Francis Mason is a prisoner of his
past mistakes.
$14.00 • TP • 978-1-935639-07-7
A novel by Michiel Heyns
Introduction by A. L. Kennedy
A tender chronicle of a boy’s
coming of age in South Africa
during the apartheid years.
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9802436-6-6
Call It What You Want
Stories by Keith Lee Morris
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.
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9825030-8-9
The Children’s Day
Cities of Refuge
A novel by Michael Helm
In Cities of Refuge, a single act
of violence resonates through
several lives, connecting closeby
fears to distant political terrors.
$15.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-49-7
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The Dart League King
Erased
Glaciers
A novel by Jim Krusoe
Food & Booze: A Tin House
Literary Feast
A novel by Keith Lee Morris
An intriguing tale of darts, drugs,
and death. Russell Harmon is the
self-proclaimed king of his smalltown Idaho dart league, but all is
not well in his kingdom.
Abandonment, life, death, and,
oddly, Cleveland are explored in
the hilarious second installment
of Jim Krusoe’s trilogy about
resurrection.
This collection celebrates seven
years of the dazzling writing and
delicious recipes of Tin House
magazine’s Readable Feast and
Blithe Spirits departments.
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-8-1
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9802436-7-3
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9773127-7-1
Glaciers follows Isabel through a
day in her life in which work with
damaged books, unrequited love
for a former soldier, and dreams
of the perfect vintage dress move
over a backdrop of deteriorating
urban architecture and the
imminent loss of the glaciers she
knew as a young girl in Alaska.
A novel by Alexis Smith
$10.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-20-6
Do Me: Tales of Sex and
Love from Tin House
This hilarious and irreverent
collection gathers the smartest,
sexiest fiction and essays from
the award-winning journal Tin
House.
$18.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-0-5
Failing Grade: Oregon’s
Higher Education System
Goes Begging
by David Sarasohn
An informative collection of two
decades of witty, hard-hitting
articles by the Oregonian’s chief
political columnist, tracking
twenty years of cuts in funding by
the Oregon legislature for Oregon’s
higher educational institutions.
Girl Factory
A yogurt parlor in a corner mall
somewhere in the city of St.
Nils contains a dark secret in
its basement, and Jonathan, the
mostly clueless clerk who works
there, just wants to fix things once
and for all.
Gravity’s Rainbow
Illustrated: Pictures
Showing What Happens
on Each Page of Thomas
Pynchon’s Novel Gravity’s
Rainbow
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-2-9
by Zak Smith
Artist Zak Smith has created
more than 750 pages of drawings,
paintings, and photos—each
inspired by a page of Thomas
Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow.
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9825691-7-7
$39.95 • TP • 978-0-9773127-9-5
The Entire Predicament
Stories by Lucy Corin
Introduction by Pam Houston
This daring debut story collection
brilliantly dissects time, people,
places, and things, truly rendering
how it feels to be human.
$13.95 • TP • 978-09776989-8-1
Girls in Peril
Fantastic Women
Edited by Rob Spillman
Introduction by Joy Williams
Fantastic Women assembles
the work of eighteen inventive,
insightful women authors who
steep their narratives in a heady
potion of surrealism and macabre
black comedy.
$18.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-10-7
A novella by Karen Lee Boren
This sparkling debut offers an
exquisitely rendered coming-ofage story about adolescent girls in
small-town Wisconsin who learn
that life’s real perils exist where
they never imagined: in their own
neighborhoods and homes.
$10.95 • TP • 978-0-9773127-2-6
Hooked
A novel by John Franc
John Franc’s masterful novel
explores sexual obsession, as
a group of male friends delve
further and further into the world
of brothels under the gleaming
surface of their cosmopolitan city.
$15.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-16-9
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Horses of God
A novel by Mahi Binebine
Translated by Lulu Norman
Inspired by real events, Horses
of God follows four childhood
friends growing up in a slum
outside of Casablanca as they
make the life-changing decisions
that will lead them to become
Islamist martyrs.
$14.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-53-4
Hot Art
by Joshua Knelman
Hot Art traces Joshua Knelman’s
five-year immersion in the
shadowy world of art theft where
he uncovers an underground art
theft ring that takes him from
Egypt to Los Angeles, New York to
London, and back again, through
a web of deceit, violence, and
corruption.
The Hour: A Cocktail
Manifesto
by Bernard DeVoto
Introduction by Daniel Handler
One part celebration, one part
history, two parts manifesto, The
Hour is a comic and unequivocal
treatise on how and why we
drink—properly.
Human Resources
Stories by Josh Goldfaden
Humorous, energetic, and
inventive, these laugh-outloud stories push the limits of
absurdity with characters who
seek purpose and community and,
every now and again, find them.
$12.95 • TP • 978-0-9776989-1-2
$16.95 • TC • 978-0-9825048-0-2
The Little General and
the Giant Snowflake
by Matthea Harvey
Illustrations by Elizabeth Zechel
In this compelling tale, a little
general, who heads an army
called the Realists, sees a giant
snowflake hovering in his garden
and realizes he is suffering from a
disease of the imagination.
$10.95 • TC • 978-0-9820539-1-1
A Householder’s Guide
to the Universe
by Harriett Fasenfast
In an era when go local, organic
food, and sustainability are on the
tip of everyone’s tongues, Harriet
Fasenfest takes up the banner
of progressive homemaking and
urban farming.
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9825691-5-3
The Journal of
Jules Renard
by Jules Renard (1864–1910)
Translated and edited by Louise
Bogan
Spanning from 1887 to 1910,
Renard’s journal is a unique
autobiographical masterpiece that,
though celebrated abroad and cited
as a principle influence by several
renowned writers, remains largely
undiscovered in the United States.
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-7-4
$16.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-38-1
Me and Mr. Booker
a novel by Cory Taylor
Looking back, Martha could’ve
said no when Mr. Booker first
tried to kiss her. That would’ve
been the sensible thing to do. But
Martha is sixteen, she lives in a
small dull town—a cemetery with
lights—her father is mad, her
home is stifling, and she’s waiting
for the rest of her life to begin.
Of course Martha would kiss
the charming Englishman who
brightened her world with style,
adventure, whiskey, cigarettes and
sex. But Martha didn’t count on the
consequences.
$14.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-36-7
Hot Springs
A novel by Geoffrey Becker
Vibrant, sexy, and quite possibly
crazy, Bernice is determined to
reclaim the child she gave up for
adoption five years ago.
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9820539-4-2
How to Do Nothing
with Nobody All Alone
by Yourself
by Robert Paul Smith
Illustrated by Elinor Goulding
Smith
Introduction by Paul Collins
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.
The Listeners
A novel by Leni Zumas
Leni Zumas portrays a world
twisted on its axis by loss in all
its grotesque beauty. The prose is
glorious: pricklingly honest and
hallucinatory, a lucid dream world
realized. The Listeners marks the
debut of a major American writer.
$15.95 • TC • 978-1-935639-29-9
$14.95 • TC • 978-0-9820539-5-9
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Mentor: A Memoir
Mosquito
Ovenman
Portuguese
by Tom Grimes
Poems by Alex Lemon
Introduction by Mark Doty
A novel by Jeff Parker
Introduction by Sam Lipsyte
Poems by Brandon Shimoda
This collection 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.
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.
An honest and heartbreaking
exploration of the writing life and
the role of a very important teacher.
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9825048-9-5
The first book in a series of
collaborations between Tin
House and Octopus Books,
Brandon Shimoda’s Portuguese
introduces a powerful new voice
in American poetry.
$14.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-51-0
$14.00 • TP • 978-09776989-2-9
$10.95 • TP • 978-0-9773127-4-0
Misfit
A novel by Adam Braver
Melding facts with imagination,
Misfit is centered around the last
weekend of Marilyn Monroe’s life.
$15.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-36-7
No One
A novel by Gwenaëlle Aubry
Translated by Trista Selous
No One is the portrait of a man
without a true self; a one-time
distinguished lawyer and member
of the Paris bar who imagined
himself in many important roles
and becomes a drifter and frequent
visitor to mental institutions.
Moby-Dick in Pictures:
One Drawing for Every Page
Parsifal
Head-spinning and hilarious,
Parsifal is a book like no other
about the entanglement of the
past and present, as well as the
limitations of the future.
$15.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-34-3
Possum Living: How to Live
Well Without a Job and
With (Almost) No Money
by Dolly Freed
In 1978, at the age of eighteen,
Dolly Freed wrote Possum Living,
chronicling the five years she
and her father lived off the land
on a half-acre lot outside of
Philadelphia.
$12.95 • TP • 978-0-9820539-3-5
$12.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-22-0
by Matt Kish
Matt Kish illustrated Herman
Melville’s classic, Moby-Dick,
by creating an image a day. By
layering images on top of existing
words and images, Kish has
crafted a visual masterpiece that
echoes the layers of meaning in
Melville’s narrative.
$39.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-13-8
$69.95 • TC with Slipcase 978-1-935639-12-1
Plotto: The Master
Book of All Plots
by William Wallace Cook
November 22, 1963
A novel by Adam Braver
This gripping novel 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.
A classic how-to manual,
William Wallace Cook’s Plotto
is one writer’s personal method,
painstakingly diagrammed for the
benefit of others.
$24.95 • TC • 978-1-935639-18-3
The Rajneesh Chronicles
by Win McCormack
A collection of in-depth
investigative articles covering
the time from the Rajneesh cult’s
arrival in Oregon in 1981 to its
dramatic disintegration at the end
of 1985.
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9825691-9-1
$24.95 • TC • 978-0-9825048-7-1
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9802436-2-8
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Rasskazy: New Fiction from
a New Russia
Satellite Convulsions:
Poems from Tin House
Edited by Mikhail Iossel and Jeff
Parker
Introduction by Francine Prose
Edited by Brenda Shaughnessy
and CJ Evans
This anthology contains twentytwo stories full of vivid depictions
of the new Russia from its most
talented young writers.
This anthology celebrates
Tin House’s commitment
to publishing innovative
contemporary poetry by both
established and emerging poets.
$18.95 • TP • 978-0-9820539-0-4
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-9-8
Shake ’Em Up!
by Virginia Elliott
and Paul D. Stong
Introduction by Amy Stewart
An essential addition to the
library of any cocktailians,
entertainers, nostalgics, or
those who just like to relax with
a cold beverage, Shake ’Em Up!
delivers all the joy of a Jazz-Age
cocktail party, without the fear
of temperance officers knocking
down your door.
The Story About the Story:
Great Writers Explore
Great Literature
Edited by J. C. Hallman
The essays in The Story About the
Story feature lively discussions of
great literature by some of the most
prominent authors of all time.
$18.95 • TP • 978-0-9802436-9-7
$16.95 • TC • 978-1-935639-60-2
River House
Saving Angelfish
A memoir by Sarahlee Lawrence
A novel by Michele Matheson
An exquisite blend of memoir and
nature writing, River House is a
young woman’s story of returning
home.
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
underbelly that inhabits the world
of LA glitz.
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9825691-3-9
$14.00 • TP • 978-0-9773127-6-4
Toward You
The Sickness
A novel by Alberto Barrera Tyszka
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
A novel by Lucia Nevai
A lovely coming-of-age story
about a budding scientist who
narrates her life from the moment
of birth with a rich awareness of
the natural world and her own
precarious spot in it.
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-3-6
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9825691-1-5
A profound and philosophical
exploration of the nature and
meaning of illness, Alberto
Barrera Tyszka’s tender, refined
novel interweaves the stories of
four individuals as they try, in
their own way, to come to terms
with sickness in all its ubiquity.
$14.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-25-1
Salvation
Toward You completes Jim
Krusoe’s bittersweet trilogy about
the relationship between this
world and the next.
We Did Porn
A memoir by Zak Smith
Blending memoir with stunning
drawings and paintings, Zak Smith
(aka Zak Sabbath) takes his readers
from the New York art scene to
Los Angeles’s seedy, yet colorful,
underbelly—the world of alt porn.
$49.95 • TC • 978-0-9820539-2-8
$24.95 • TP • 978-0-9802436-8-0
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Welcome to Paradise
A novel by Mahi Binebine
Translated by Lulu Norman
Mahi Binebine’s courageous novel
takes place in Morocco where
seven would-be immigrants,
pulled by the dream of a better
life, gather one night near the
strait of Gibraltar to wait for a
signal from traffickers.
Wire to Wire
The Writer’s Notebook
A novel by Scott Sparling
This collection of craft essays
features the best craft seminars
from the Tin House Summer
Writer’s Workshop, offering
aspiring writers insight into the
craft of writing.
Wire to Wire assembles a cast of
train-hopping, drug-dealing, gluehuffing lowlifes, in a stunning
homage to one of our most
popular enduring genres—the
American crime novel.
$18.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-1-2
$15.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-05-3
$14.95 • TCP• 978-1-935639-27-5
What Happened
to Sophie Wilder
A novel by Christopher R. Beha
Charlie Blakeman is living in New
York, on Washington Square,
struggling to write his second
novel and floundering, when
his college love, Sophie Wilder,
returns to his life. When Sophie
once again abruptly disappears,
Charlie sets out to discover what
happened to Sophie Wilder.
Why Do Fools Fall in Love:
A Realist’s Guide
to Romance
Your Wildest Dreams, Within
Reason collects Mike Sacks’s
unique humor pieces (originally
published in the New Yorker,
Vanity Fair, Esquire, and
McSweeney’s) into one handsome,
convenient volume.
The Writer’s Notebook II
In this nimble and original
exploration of love’s hidden
motivations and manifestations,
Anouchka Grose tries to get to the
heart of its hold over us.
The Writer’s Notebook II: Craft
Essays from Tin House combines
the best craft seminars in the
history of the Tin House Summer
Writer’s Workshop with a variety
of essays written by some of Tin
House’s favorite authors, offering
aspiring writers insight into the
craft of writing.
$15.95 • TCP• 978-1-935639-00-8
$18.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-46-6
by Anouchka Grose
Great and Minor Moments
in Oregon History*
Edited by Dick Pintarich
Oregon historian Dick Pintarich
has collected an engaging and
fascinating array of essays and
anecdotes, exploring both the
familiar and the surprising in
Oregon history.
$24.95 • TP • 978-0-943511-00-9
$29.95 • TC • 978-0-9802436-0-4
*Published by New Oregon Publishers
The World Within
A novel by Elina Hirvonen
by Mike Sacks
$13.95 • TP• 978-1-935639-02-2
$15.95 • TCP• 978-1-935639-31-2
When I Forgot
Your Wildest Dreams,
Within Reason
This collection gathers twenty
of the freshest, funniest, and
most intriguing interviews in the
history of Tin House.
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9776989-6-7
An astonishingly assured debut that
explores the relationship between
a sister and a brother, the past that
they share, and the memories that
shape their lives forever.
Yes, Yes, Cherries
Stories by Mary Otis
Exploring the idea that truth lies
in life’s extremes, these partially
linked stories follow girls and
women who are outsiders and
find themselves in unusual
circumstances.
$12.95 • TP • 978-0-9776989-0-5
$12.95 • TP • 978-0-9802436-5-9
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