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new releases
Beside the Sea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
The Writer’s Notebook II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Me and Mr. Booker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Cities of Refuge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Portuguese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
American Dream Machine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Horses of God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Celestials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Shake ’Em Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Tin House Magazine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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Beside the Sea
A novel by Véronique Olmi
Translated by Adriana Hunter
Praise for Beside the Sea
“A harrowing evocation of mental illness, and of one woman’s terrifying inability
to bear the burdens of motherhood. A sustained exercise in dread for the reader,
but a surprisingly sympathetic portrait nonetheless.”
— Lionel Shriver, author of We Need To Talk About Kevin
“This short novel has the trajectory of a classic tragedy with its taut time-span
and sense of inevitability, as we witness a woman destroyed by a tragic flaw . . .
The closing pages are heart-stopping and heartbreaking, yet one finishes this sad
tale not depressed but uplifted by its ability to enlarge the reader’s sympathies.”
—Chris Schueler, The Independent
120 pages • $12.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • September 2012 • Rights: U. S. • 978-1-935639-42-8
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single mother takes her two sons on a trip to the seaside. They stay in a hotel, drink
hot chocolate, and go to the funfair. She wants to protect them from an uncaring and
uncomprehending world. She knows that it will be the last trip for her boys.
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.
About the Author: Véronique Olmi was born in 1962 in Nice and now lives in Paris. She is a
highly acclaimed French dramatist and her twelve plays have won numerous awards. Bord de
Mer, published in 2001 and translated into all major European languages, was her first novel.
Adriana Hunter won the 2011 Scott-Moncrieff Prize for her translation of Véronique Olmi’s
Bord de Mer (Beside the Sea), and has been short-listed twice for both the French-American
Foundation and Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize and the Independent Foreign
Fiction Prize. She lives in Norfolk, England.
“This is a mesmerizing portrait ...
Ventriloquising for the mad, or rather
for those who are mad in this way, is
a risky business for novelists . . . To
capture this without alienating the
reader is quite an achievement, and
indeed valuable . . . it should be read.”
—Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
“Prose . . . filled with sad poetic
sense and blunt, bleak realities,
compellingly conveyed in Hunter’s
colloquial English.”
—Times Literary Supplement
“With the skill of a thriller writer, the
mother-narrator propels you forward
and, as the awful climax approaches,
compels you to profoundly question
your own life and relationships.”
—Rosie Goldsmith, BBC
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The Writer’s Notebook II:
Craft Essays from Tin House
Praise for the original Writer’s Notebook
“Much more entertaining is The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays From Tin House,
which is a pretty fair summary of where actual writing instruction is at these
days. Most of the essays originated in writing workshops run by the literary
magazine Tin House, and they include advice on sex writing by Steve Almond,
on what you can learn from Shakespeare by Margot Livesey, and on revision by
Chris Offutt, who compares the process to ‘draining the kitchen sink and seeing
what’s in there, which is usually a mess.’”
—Charles McGrath, The New York Times
“The essays within The Writer’s Notebook each offer a fresh perspective on various
aspects of the writing craft . . . features an eclectic list of top shelf contributions
each bound together by a pragmatic approach to teaching the craft of writing . . . If
you can’t actually attend the workshops, this is probably your next best bet.”
—Mark Flanagan, About.com
250 pages • $18.95 • 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” • Trade Paper • November 2012 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-46-6
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he 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.
Steve Almond, Andrea Barrett, Aimee Bender, Antonya Nelson, Karen Russell and
others break down elements of craft and share insights into the joys and pains of their
own writing. This cast of deeply respected poets and prose writers explore topics that
vary from writing dialogue to the dos and don’ts of writing about sex. With how-tos, close
readings, and personal anecdotes, The Writer’s Notebook II offers future scribes advice and
inspiration.
Contributors Include: Steve Almond, Andrea Barrett, Aimee Bender, Adam Braver, Anthony
Doerr, Ann Hood, Bret Anthony Johnston, Jim Krusoe, Antonya Nelson, Maggie Nelson, Ben
Percy, and Karen Russell.
“There is enough variety that you are
sure to find several kindred souls. The
Tin House editors do a great job of
gathering an eccentric mix of talented
writers and essay subjects.”
—Lincoln Michel, The Faster Times
“We get all manner of books on writing
around here and they tend to blend
together but the offerings from Tin
House always stand out. They’ve just
published The Writer’s Notebook: Craft
Essays from Tin House, which includes
terrifically useful essays from the likes
of Dorothy Allison, Rick Bass, Aimee
Bender, Jim Krusoe, Antonya Nelson
and Jim Shepard.”
—The Elegant Variation
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Me and Mr. Booker
A novel by Cory Taylor
Praise for Me and Mr. Booker
“Part Lolita, part Bridget Jones, Martha, witty and wise beyond her years, is lost
in a world of dysfunctional adults, particularly the charming, alcohol-soaked Mr.
Booker—a seductive chameleon who challenges the reader’s assumptions and
hopes every step of the way. Cory Taylor is a wonderful writer and Me and Mr.
Booker is riveting—a disturbing, darkly comic coming of age story unlike any you
—Jill McCorkle, author of Going Away Shoes
have ever seen!” “Me and Mr. Booker is a kind of Lolita from Lolita’s point of view. It’s elegant and
controlled and wickedly funny . . . The book offers a bit of sex, but it’s ultimately
—David Vann, author of Caribou Island
about the momentum of misshapen lives.”
“Taylor’s straightforward prose captures the nuances of being at an age where you
cannot see the differences between being a teenager and being an adult.”
—Publishers Weekly
216 pages • $14.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • January 2013 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-36-7
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ooking 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.
Me and Mr. Booker is a story about feeling old when you’re young and acting young when
you’re not.
About the Author: Cory Taylor is an award-winning screenwriter who has also published short
fiction and children’s books. She lives in Brisbane, Australia. This is her first novel.
“There’s not a false note in Cory
Taylor’s brilliant Me and Mr. Booker.
Original, devastating, both sad and
hilarious, this novel should be read
alongside Lolita, giving interior life to
the “nymphet” sexually involved with
an adult. Cory Taylor’s writing never
calls attention to itself; the perfectly
attuned voice rolls over the reader, a
silent steamroller, flattening the breath
from the body.”
—Leslie Daniels, author of
Cleaning Nabokov’s House
“Restrained, surprisingly moving and
compulsively readable, Cory Taylor’s
debut novel is a nuanced and touching
portrait of a doomed relationship.”
—Sun Herald
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Cities of Refuge
A novel by Michael Helm
Praise for Cities of Refuge
“A powerful and intricate novel about political guilt in contemporary times,
intellectually astute and with crystalline writing. Cities of Refuge weaves together
the clashes of culture, alongside that of a father and a daughter, to make large
—Michael Ondaatje
issues intimate and in the end heartbreaking.” “Michael Helm delivers us to the rarified and unsettling regions of the heart and
mind, with winning results: he is a capable navigator, a superb craftsman, and
Cities of Refuge is a humane and harrowing novel.”
—Patrick DeWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers
“Cities of Refuge is an unsettling and powerful novel that beautifully engages the
complexities of memory, trauma, and history.”
—Dana Spiotta, author of Stone Arabia and Eat the Document
424 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • March 2013 • Rights: U. S. • 978-1-935639-49-7
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ne summer night on a side street in downtown Toronto, Kim Lystrander is attacked
by a stranger. In the weeks and months that follow, she returns to the night, in writing,
searching for harbingers of the incident and clues to the identity of her assailant. The attack
also torments Kim’s father, and as he investigates the crime on his own, he begins to unravel.
Entwined in their stories are Kim’s ailing mother, a young Colombian man living in the
country illegally, and a woman whose faith-based belief in the duty to give asylum to any who
seek it, even those judged guilty, endangers them all.
A novel of profound moral tension and luminous prose, Cities of Refuge shows how a
single act of violence connects close-by fears to distant political terrors. It weaves a web
of incrimination and inquiry in which mysteries live within mysteries, and stories within
stories, and the power to save or condemn rests not only in the forces of history but also in
the realm of our deepest longings.
About the Author: Michael Helm’s earlier novels include The Projectionist, a finalist for the
Giller Prize and the Trillium Award, and In the Place of Last Things, a finalist for the Rogers Writers’
Trust Fiction Prize and the regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. His writings on
fiction, poetry, and the visual arts have appeared in North American newspapers and magazines,
including Brick, where he serves as an editor. He teaches at York University in Toronto.
“The profound empathy with which
Michael Helm imagines his characters
into multidimensional life is only
one of his many, great gifts. As Cities
of Refuge demonstrates, he is also a
spectacularly good storyteller and
prose stylist with a range and nerve
that sets him apart from almost every
other writer of his generation.”
—Barbara Gowdy,
author of Helpless
“Let me state simply that this is one of
the finest books I have read in recent
years . . . This is not just a novel set
in Toronto; it is about Toronto and it
is the most discerning description of
the city since Michael Ondaatje’s In
the Skin of a Lion . . . In his luminous
prose, Helm has dared to go beyond the
psychological level to the level of spirit.”
—Literary Review of Canada
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Portuguese
Poems by Brandon Shimoda
Praise for Brandon Shimoda
“Brandon Shimoda’s The Girl Without Arms is a whirlwind of language. I got lost
in the turning and I was so happy to be lost, for once. Because the genius of poetry
is to make you feel like you always want to be lost in a cone of words and light,
twisting around what may have started out as your one self but is now so many
selves. And twisting, tearing, and splitting you so pleasantly into many selves is
—Dorothea Lasky
exactly what this book does.”
100 pages • $14.95 • 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” • Trade Paper • March 2013 • Rights: World • T
he poems in Portuguese began while poet Brandon Shimoda rode city buses around
Seattle and was inspired by his fellow passengers. They also began as responses to the
words and writings of visual artists, mostly painters, whom Shimoda was reading while riding
the bus, especially Etel Adnan, Eugène Delacroix, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee, and Joan
Mitchell. Portuguese is a work of color, owing a debt to a visit to Beirut, Lebanon, six months
spent in a cabin in the woods of western Maine, and the Japanese poets Kazuko Shiraishi,
Ryuichi Tamura, and Minoru Yoshioka. Portuguese is a travelogue and a work of restlessness, a
way to keep up with life in the form of drawing observations and feelings on paper, giving form
to the energy making up some part of memory. It’s a powerful act of preservation, a work for
friends, family, and lovers.
978-1-935639-51-0
Praise for Brandon Shimoda
“Sometimes I can taste the world in a
poem. Sometimes there is a poet in
service to deliver everything you want
to taste in the world. Brandon Shimoda
is such a poet. If every book he writes
is as good as The Girl Without Arms
there will be many years of never going
hungry. Some people have faith in god,
but I have faith in Poetry. I have faith in
Brandon Shimoda.”
—CAConrad
About the Author: Brandon Shimoda (b. 1978—) is the author of several books—including O
Bon (Litmus Press, 2011), The Girl Without Arms (Black Ocean, 2011), and The Alps (Flim Forum,
2008)—as well as numerous limited editions of collaborations, drawings, writings, and songs.
Born in California, he has since lived in eleven states and five countries.
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American Dream Machine
A novel by Matthew Specktor
Praise for American Dream Machine
“American Dream Machine is grand, complex, lush, intelligent and lively, funny
as hell and generous in ways you don’t often find. It’s also a strikingly original
portrait of Los Angeles. People speak of Chandler’s Los Angeles, or Didion’s, or
Nathaniel West’s. Someday, they’ll speak of Specktor’s the same way.”
—Victor LaValle, author of Big Machine and The Devil in Silver
“American Dream Machine is the definitive new Hollywood novel. It’s almost
impossible to write now about the movie business without resorting to wellestablished mythology. Somehow, here, Matthew Specktor has figured out a way
to do so.”
—David Shields, author of Reality Hunger and The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead
466 pages • $25.95 • 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” • Trade Cloth • April 2013 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-44-2
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merican Dream Machine is the story of an iconic striver, a classic self-made man in the
vein of Jay Gatsby or Augie March. It’s the story of a talent agent and his troubled sons,
two generations of Hollywood royalty. It’s a sweeping narrative about parents and children, the
movie business, and the sundry sea changes that have shaped Hollywood, and by extension,
American life.
Beau Rosenwald—overweight, not particularly handsome, and improbably charismatic—
arrives in Los Angles 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.
“Matthew Specktor has created a
great American character in Beau
Rosenwald. He is full of contradictions,
full of ambition, full of raw life, and
yet he manages to seduce us. This
riveting novel shows us the existential
desperation that lurks in the dark
hunger of Hollywood power mongers.
Specktor gets every detail right, and
American Dream Machine’s sentences
are suffused with an elegiac beauty.”
—Dana Spiotta, author of Stone
Arabia and Eat the Document
About the Author: Matthew Specktor is the author of That Summertime Sound and The
Sting, and his writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Salon, The Believer, The Paris Review
Daily, and Open City. He is presently collaborating with James Franco on a film adaptation of
Steve Erickson’s novel Zeroville. A MacDowell Colony fellow and a founding editor of the Los
Angeles Review of Books, he lives in Los Angeles.
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Horses of God
A novel by Mahi Binebine
Translated by Lulu Norman
Praise for Horses of God
“This is a heart-stopping, heart-breaking narrative—the story of a group of
young men trying to make lives for themselves in one of Casablanca’s poorest
slums. It captures the intersection of politics, poverty, religion, and youth. It is a
story as beautiful as it is disturbing, as sober-minded as it is astonishingly wild
—Pauls Toutonghi, author of Evel Knievel Days
and expansive.” 168 pages • $14.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • April 2013 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-53-4
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n May 16, 2003, fourteen suicide bombers launched a series of attacks throughout
Casablanca. It was the deadliest attack in Morocco’s history. The bombers came from
the shantytowns of Sidi Moumen, a poor suburb on the edge of a dump whose impoverished
residents rarely if ever set foot in the cosmopolitan city at their doorstep. Mahi Binebine’s
novel, Horses of God, follows four childhood friends growing up in Sidi Moumen as they make
the life-changing decisions that will lead them to become Islamist martyrs.
The seeds of fundamentalist martyrdom are sown in the dirt-poor lives of Yachine,
Nabil, Fuad, and Ali, all raised in Sidi Moumen. The boys’ soccer team, The Stars of Sidi
Moumen, is their main escape from the poverty, violence, and absence of hope that pervade
their lives. When Yachine’s older brother Hamid falls under the spell of fundamentalist
leader Abu Zoubeir, the attraction of a religion that offers discipline, purpose, and guidance
to young men who have none of these things becomes too seductive to ignore.
About the Author: Mahi Binebine was born in Marrakesh in 1959. He studied in Paris
and taught mathematics, until he became recognized first as a painter, then as a novelist.
Binebine lived in New York in the late 1990s, when his paintings began to be acquired by the
Guggenheim Museum. His first novel, Welcome to Paradise was published in France by Librairie
Artheme Fayard in 1999, in Great Britain in 2003 by Granta Books, and in the United States in
2012 by Tin House Books. He lives in Marrakesh.
“Like Paulo Lins’s sweeping Brazilian
saga City of God, Binebine’s Horses
of God is the story of a violent, mazelike city-within-a-city—Casablanca’s
Sidi Moumen shantytown—its
anonymous dreams and scavenger
dumps, campfires and soccer matches
and ‘hashish-scented sky.’ But, above
all, it’s about Sidi Moumen’s soul and
the ‘living dead’ yearning to escape,
to be reborn, to grow wings and soar
above its crumbling walls. Binebine
writes living, breathing history, vividly
capturing our incendiary daily world
from the inside out.”
—Anderson Tepper, editor,
Vanity Fair
Lulu Norman is a writer, translator, and editor who lives in London. She has translated Albert
Cossery, Mahmoud Darwish, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and the songs of Serge Gainsbourg and
written for national newspapers, the London Review of Books, and other literary journals. Her
translation of Mahi Binebine’s Welcome to Paradise (Granta, 2003; Tin House Books, 2012)
was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She also works as assistant editor of
Banipal, the magazine of modern Arab literature.
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The Celestials
A novel by Karen Shepard
Praise for The Celestials
“What a riveting, wonderfully intelligent novel! Karen Shepard’s characters
vibrate with desire and disappointment, so obdurately individual that a whole
world springs to life around them and the past becomes completely present.”
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—Andrea Barrett, author of Ship Fever and The Air We Breathe
320 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • June 2013 • Rights: North American • 978-1-935639-55-8
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n June of 1870, seventy-five Chinese laborers arrived in North Adams, Massachusetts, to
work for Calvin Sampson, a shoe manufacturer and one of the biggest industrialists in that
busy factory town. Except for the foreman, the Chinese didn’t speak English. They didn’t know
they were strikebreakers. The eldest of them was twenty-two.
Despite threats from the fired union workers, there were no major incidents of violence.
Within days, the Chinese were at work. Within weeks, they were studying with local
volunteers. The fired workers opened a cooperative factory, but The Crispins, the biggest
union in the country, was broken. North Adams wouldn’t have another strike—in any
industry—for a decade.
The Celestials follows several characters but is centrally focused on the relationships
between Sampson and his wife, Julia, who has had several miscarriages over the course of
their childless marriage; Sampson and his new workers, whom he comes to look upon as
“sons”; and the townspeople and the Celestials, who are regarded as both threatening and
exotic. When Julia gives birth to a clearly mixed-race baby, the infant becomes a lightning
rod for the novel’s questions concerning identity, alienation, and exile.
The Celestials is a historical novel of immigration, multiculturalism, labor, community
and exclusion, alienation and reinvention, and our country’s peculiar history and
relationship with all those things. It’s about our shared sense that we’re all aliens of some
kind—at home in no place. The book asks us to think about how we make ourselves into the
people we want to be, and what gets sacrificed along the way.
Praise for Don’t I Know You
“Subtle and rewarding, Shepard’s
narrative unravels the mystery of
Gina’s murder obliquely, through
her characters’ layered relationships,
leading to a conclusion that’s satisfying,
haunting and well deserved.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Darkly tantalizing.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Shepard has found a voice here that is
as strong and confident and full of wise
observation.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
About the Author: Karen Shepard is a Chinese-American, born and raised in New York
City. She is the author of three novels, An Empire of Women, The Bad Boy’s Wife, and Don’t
I Know You? Her short fiction has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, Tin House, and
Ploughshares. She teaches writing and literature at Williams College in Williamstown, MA,
where she lives with her husband, novelist Jim Shepard, and their three children.
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Shake ’Em Up
by Virginia Elliott and Paul D. Stong
With an introduction by Amy Stewart
“Tender young things, who have just been taken off stick candy, prefer complicated pink
and creamy drinks which satisfy their beastly appetite for sweets and at the same time
offer an agreeable sense of sinfulness. If you have any crème de menthe or crème de
cocoa about the house, make them up some kind of a mess of it and push them under
the piano to suck on it.” —from Shake ’Em Up
120 pages • $16.95 • 5 1/4” x 6 3/4” • Trade Cloth • June 2013 • Rights: World • 978-1-935639-60-2
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s the authors say: Shake ’Em Up is “for People Who Fling Parties, People Who Go to
Parties . . . People Who Don’t Really Drink but Feel That a Cocktail or Two Enlivens
Conversation—in short, for the American People,” and that’s as true today as it was upon the
book’s original publication, “in the twelfth year of Volstead, 1930.”
Virginia Elliott and Phil D. Stong created a handbook for polite—if not entirely legal—
drinking during the height of Prohibition, but the advice remains sound, the voice charming,
and the cocktails strong.
Whether you’re looking for the proper way to mix a Brandy Punch, what you ought to
serve alongside a Bijou Cocktail, or a dependable hangover cure, Shake ’Em Up has you
covered. Need advice on how to catch up with your already-inebriated guests, or guidance on
what to do when said guests end up a little too inebriated? Here, too, Shake ’Em Up will point
you in the right direction. Looking for a step-by-step guide to making bathtub gin? Well,
sadly, that page has been censored by the United States District Attorney for the Southern
District of New York.
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.
About the Author: Virginia Elliott and Phil D. Stong coauthored Shake 'Em Up: A Practical
Handbook of Polite Drinking. Both lived in New York City.
Amy Stewart is the best-selling author of Wicked Plants and Flower Confidential. She lives in
Eureka, California.
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Tin House Magazine, 2012
Edited by Win McCormack, Rob Spillman, and Holly MacArthur
The Portland Brooklyn Issue
on newsstands
September 1—November 31, 2012
Science Fair
Summer Reading
Portland/Brooklyn
Winter Reading
#51: March 2012
#52: June 2012
#53: September 2012
#54: December 2012
Welcome to Tin House Science
Fair, an expo of experimentation, invention, and imagination
for all things mathematical,
astronomical, biological, and,
yes, literary . Check out Alan
Lightman’s display of aging cells
and irrational desires in “The
Temporary Universe,” and
witness Etgar Keret build a case
for alternate realities in
“Parallel Universes.” Analyze
Rachel Riederer’s research on
a rare neurological condition in
“Uncommon Sense,” and explore
poetry devoted to anatomy and
nanobots . All this and more!
Tin House’s summer reading
issue features new work from
Amy Hempel, Anne Carson,
Alice Munro, Kristen Iskandrian,
and Lee K. Abbott, along with
poetry from Sherman Alexie and
Adrienne Rich. The Lost & Found
department brings you Francine
Prose on Annie Ernaux’s A Man’s
Place, Paul Griffin on Raymond
Chandler’s The Lady in the Lake,
and loads of other summer treats.
This issue we dedicate to Portland
and Brooklyn writers, artists,
and musicians. From fiction by
Ursula K. Le Guin to provocative
pieces about unapologetic hipsters
and Middle Eastern enclaves in
Brooklyn, we’ve found work that
goes beyond the clichéd images of
single-speeds and sideburns. This
issue brings its readers poetry,
fiction, essays, art, and interviews
that showcase the unique
character of each place.
Snuggle up with a warm blanket
and a cup of hot cocoa and enjoy
some of the best contemporary
writing in the world. Take comfort
through the long, cold winter with
strong doses of literary prose,
poetry, and interviews from both
established writers and new
voices in this issue of Tin House
magazine.
For back issues and more, visit www.tinhouse.com
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Backlist
Agaat
A novel by Marlene van Nierkerk
Translated by Michiel Heyns
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.
Best of Tin House
From the award-winning
literary magazine comes a
dazzling collection of stories by
contemporary masters of the form.
$18.95 • TP • 978-0-9773127-1-9
Call It What You Want
The Dart League King
Stories by Keith Lee Morris
A novel 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.
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.
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-8-1
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9825030-8-9
$19.95 • TP • 978-0-9825030-9-6
Bright Before Us
A novel by Katie Arnold-Ratliff
Asta in the Wings
A novel by Jan Elizabeth Watson
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.
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
The Children’s Day
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.
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
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9802436-6-6
$14.00 • TP • 978-0-9802436-1-1
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The Entire Predicament
Fantastic Women
Girls in Peril
Stories by Lucy Corin
Introduction by Pam Houston
Edited by Rob Spillman
Introduction by Joy Williams
A novella by Karen Lee Boren
This daring debut story collection
brilliantly dissects time, people,
places, and things, truly rendering
how it feels to be human.
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.
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.
$18.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-10-7
$10.95 • TP • 978-0-9773127-2-6
$13.95 • TP • 978-09776989-8-1
Gravity’s Rainbow
Illustrated: Pictures
Showing What Happens
on Each Page of Thomas
Pynchon’s Novel Gravity’s
Rainbow
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.
$39.95 • TP • 978-0-9773127-9-5
Erased
A novel by Jim Krusoe
Abandonment, life, death, and,
oddly, Cleveland are explored in
the hilarious second installment
of Jim Krusoe’s trilogy about
resurrection.
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9802436-7-3
Food & Booze: A Tin House
Literary Feast
Glaciers
This collection celebrates seven
years of the dazzling writing and
delicious recipes of Tin House
magazine’s Readable Feast and
Blithe Spirits departments.
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.
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9773127-7-1
A novel by Alexis Smith
$10.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-20-6
Failing Grade: Oregon’s
Higher Education System
Goes Begging
Girl Factory
by David Sarasohn
A novel by Jim Krusoe
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.
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.
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9825691-7-7
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-2-9
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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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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.
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.
Human Resources
The Listeners
Stories by Josh Goldfaden
A novel by Leni Zumas
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 it.
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.
$12.95 • TP • 978-0-9776989-1-2
$15.95 • TC • 978-1-935639-29-9
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9825691-5-3
$16.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-38-1
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 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.
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
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-7-4
$14.95 • TC • 978-0-9820539-5-9
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.
Mentor: A Memoir
by Tom Grimes
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
$16.95 • TC • 978-0-9825048-0-2
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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
Parsifal
The Rajneesh Chronicles
A novel by Gwenaëlle Aubry
Translated by Trista Selous
A novel by Jim Krusoe
by Win McCormack
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.
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.
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.
$15.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-34-3
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9825691-9-1
$24.95 • TC • 978-0-9825048-7-1
$12.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-22-0
Moby-Dick in Pictures:
One Drawing for Every Page
Plotto: The Master
Book of All Plots
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
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.
by William Wallace Cook
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
Rasskazy: New Fiction from
a New Russia
Edited by Mikhail Iossel and Jeff
Parker
Introduction by Francine Prose
This anthology contains twentytwo stories full of vivid depictions
of the new Russia from its most
talented young writers.
$18.95 • TP • 978-0-9820539-0-4
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9802436-2-8
Possum Living: How to Live
Well Without a Job and
With (Almost) No Money
Mosquito
Poems by Alex Lemon
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.
$10.95 • TP • 978-0-9773127-4-0
Ovenman
A novel by Jeff Parker
Introduction by Sam Lipsyte
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.
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.
River House
A memoir by Sarahlee Lawrence
An exquisite blend of memoir and
nature writing, River House is a
young woman’s story of returning
home.
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9825691-3-9
$12.95 • TP • 978-0-9820539-3-5
$14.00 • TP • 978-09776989-2-9
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Salvation
The Sickness
We Did Porn
A novel by Lucia Nevai
A novel by Alberto Barrera Tyszka
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
A memoir by Zak Smith
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
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.
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
$14.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-25-1
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.
$15.95 • TCP• 978-1-935639-31-2
Satellite Convulsions:
Poems from Tin House
Edited by Brenda Shaughnessy
and CJ Evans
This anthology celebrates
Tin House’s commitment
to publishing innovative
contemporary poetry by both
established and emerging poets.
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-9-8
Welcome to Paradise
The Story About the Story:
Great Writers Explore
Great Literature
A novel by Mahi Binebine
Translated by Lulu Norman
The essays in The Story About the
Story feature lively discussions of
great literature by some of the most
prominent authors of all time.
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
Straight of Gibraltar to wait for a
signal from traffickers.
$18.95 • TP • 978-0-9802436-9-7
$14.95 • TCP• 978-1-935639-27-5
Edited by J. C. Hallman
When I Forgot
A novel by Elina Hirvonen
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.
$12.95 • TP • 978-0-9802436-5-9
Saving Angelfish
A novel by Michele Matheson
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.
Toward You
Wire to Wire
A novel by Jim Krusoe
A novel by Scott Sparling
Toward You completes Jim
Krusoe’s bittersweet trilogy about
the relationship between this
world and the next.
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.
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9825691-1-5
$14.00 • TP • 978-0-9773127-6-4
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Why Do Fools Fall in Love:
A Realist’s Guide
to Romance
by Anouchka Grose
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.
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
$15.95 • TCP• 978-1-935639-00-8
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
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
Your Wildest Dreams,
Within Reason
by Mike Sacks
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.
$13.95 • TP• 978-1-935639-02-2
The Writer’s Notebook
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.
$18.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-1-2
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Publishers Group Worldwide
International Sales Department
841 Broadway, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10003 USA
Elizabeth Shramko (for orders and general
inquiries)
International Sales Assistant
Tel: 212-614-7973
Fax: 212-614-7866
Email: elizabeth.shramko@
pg w.com
Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia,
Vietnam, Laos
June Poonpanich
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Wangtonglang
Bangkok 10310
Tel: 08-96603397, 02-5388318
Email: june.p@live.com
TIN HOU SE B OOKS 2 01 3 CATAL O G
cover art:
Matthew Seely
Tin House Books
2013 Catalog
Design by
Diane Chonette
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